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Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

MolotovCocktail says

Yeah, it's like out of the frying pan into the fire if you move from CA to TX. Phelan's an alcoholic who is slurring drunk during session. When the republican's win elections they just give away half of the committee seats to the democrats in some sort of uniparty bs. Last year (maybe year before) I think TX tried to criminalize slurs against Jews. So much for free speech.

Phelan was the guy who spearheaded the attack on Paxton. I rooted for Paxton but then this is now in play and I think Paxton is part of it too: https://patrick.net/post/1384365/2025-04-26-charles-perry

Don't get excited. This bill just means that when you doctor some image or video and change what was really said or done, you must include a disclaimer stating that it is altered. It does not forbid satire, it just stops deep fakes.

Well, if you live in Texas, Rep. Phelan’s new bill makes it a criminal offense to distribute media that features an “image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality” unless it includes a government-approved disclaimer.
https://texaspolitics.com/2025/04/30/is-the-texas-house-criminalizing-memes/

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

Last year (maybe year before) I think TX tried to criminalize slurs against Jews.

Never happened. What did happen is that unelected Government Employee-Administrators were forbidden from unilaterally carrying out foreign policy. For example, University Admins refusing to buy for certain individuals or countries on their own whims.

Rokes are constantly trying to exaggerate laws like that into "Free Speech" issues. The Assistant Purchasing Manager for Facilities of a UT campus cannot simply decide to not consider certain bids because she, Begum Al-Maliki, doesn't like Jews or Israel and gives a contract to her Uncle's fly-by-night IT firm that runs by outsourcing everything to his Muslim Brotherhood pals in Pakistan

Patrick says

Ironic that talking about the weather is what caused Mark Steyn to get sued.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-backstory-of-substack

Still, By 2022, NGOs such as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and articles in The Washington Post and The Atlantic argued that Substack could be over-run by disinformation super spreaders, anti-vaxers and extremists including “Nazis.”

According to one CCDH video presentation, “five popular anti-vaccine newsletters” generate “at least $2.5 million a year … Substack makes 10 percent profit off of their lies. It’s got to stop,” the video concludes. ...

The company’s founders fought back against the pressure campaign, issuing a statement that said: “We make decisions based on principles not PR, we will defend free expression, and we will stick to our hands-off approach to content moderation.”

Today, Substack has more than 35 million users and at least five million paid subscriptions.

But a lot of people, like Bill Rice, the author of that Substack post, that Substack is deliberately hiding content which tells the truth about the mass murder by mandated mRNA.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-pensioner-receives-75-day

German pensioner receives 75-day prison sentence in latest speech crime scandal to hit the Federal Republic

Twice last year, the man repeated the expression “Alles für Deutschland”1 in posts on X – apparently in the course of discussing the indictment of Alternative für Deutschland politician Björn Höcke for the use of the same phrase. The words are forbidden in Germany by Section 86a of the German Criminal Code, which bans National Socialist slogans and symbols. While “Alles für Deutschland” occurs in various contexts, the phrase is associated particularly with the Sturmabteilung, or the SA, who carved the words onto their uniform daggers.

The Traunstein Public Prosecutor brought charges against our pensioner last autumn. The District Court convicted him in November and imposed a fine of €4,500, which he was unable to pay due to financial hardship. Rather than granting the usual deferral or instalment plan, prosecutors have summoned him to serve 75 days in prison instead. He will begin his sentence on 5 June.

This is the latest in a long string of speech crime prosecutions in Germany, as our political establishment collaborates with police and prosecutors to intimidate ordinary people who say untoward things on social media. Last November, another German pensioner from Bavaria had his house raided by police for the crime of sharing a meme on X that called former Economics Minister Robert Habeck a “moron.” Others have been prosecuted for such trivialities as tweeting the poop emoji at a cabinet minister, calling Greens fat and stupid, imprecisely quoting important politicians, and reproducing a picture of former Health Minister Karl Lauterbach with his hand raised at an unfortunate angle. In most such cases, convicted speech criminals receive fines (however ruinous), although harsher sentences are not unheard-of.

Patrick says

Fortunately, no problem with that here in the USA, as Candace, Tuqar, IfNotNow (supported by Tides/Soros), The Unz Review, Center for the National Interest, Antiwar.com, MintPress News, Strategic Culture Foundation, etc. etc. say and print tons of shit critical of just one foreign nation.

BTW, I gnoticed that Unz now is taking the Muslim side now in anti-Indian propaganda:
https://www.unz.com/bhua/indian-mass-delusion-syndrome-on-full-display/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/literally-thursday-may-29-2025-c

Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio

For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by
foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.
Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to
foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans.
Free speech is essential to the American way of life - a birthright over which
foreign governments have no authority.

Our enemies have long silenced and punished American speech. This is most clearly seen in the banning of US-based social media platforms, for example. But it’s our allies, such as the European Union, who’ve begun criminalizing speech, recently arresting Telegram’s founder, for example. And they are suing the dickens out of Twitter and Facebook, as two more examples, for violating their stupid online speech codes.

Ironically, George Orwell was British.

Foreign leaders will be desperate to avoid being put on Rubio’s “list” because it doesn’t just block their access to the United States— it publicly brands them as enemies of American liberty. Being sanctioned under a speech-based visa restriction effectively exiles them from the global stage, cutting off face-to-face diplomacy, high-level trade talks, swanky elite conferences, and media platforms that all flow through Washington, New York, and Silicon Valley.

Worse, becoming a diplomatic persona non grata invites political embarrassment back at home, and emboldens the leaders’ rivals to circle like sharks. For a ruling-class technocrat or regulator whose power depends on international status and institutional access, being blacklisted by the U.S. is career poison. The threat of losing that privilege turns the list into a geopolitical electric cattle prod— and Rubio’s message seems clear: if you target American speech, you could forfeit your seat at America’s table.

This is the first time in U.S. history that foreign officials could face personal diplomatic consequences for participating in the global censorship-industrial complex and collectively violating Americans’ constitutional rights.

The move is part of the bigger theme we’ve been tracking — that the Trump administration is reversing the vectors of power, especially on censorship, lawfare, and institutional corruption. Rubio’s visa ban on foreign censors is the next chess move. It’s early, and it was just an announcement, so I don’t want to speculate too much yet about how hard this geopolitical haymaker could land.

https://x.com/LeoLins

8 YEARS: Jail term for comic over his jokes

Brazil's Leo Lins 'is being treated like a drug
trafficker'

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for cight years and
three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up
special.

A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins's work
contributed to "the spread of verbal violence in society
and promotion of intolerance.

The Brazilian government brought the case, saying the
comedian's material targetted black people, the obese.
elderly people, those living with HIV, LGBT people,
evangelicals, Indigenous communities, people from the
impoverished northeast of Brazil, Jews and people with
disabilitics.

His lawyers criticised the ruling, saying in a statement: a
"This is a sad chapter for freedom of expression in Brasil.

I asked ChatGpt to translate this line from Marie LePen:



Je suppose que ce sont encore les contribuables qui vont payer la remise en état des gribouillages de ces destructeurs d’extrême gauche !

It deleted the text, but then also translated it? WTF?

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/bilderberg-2025-elites-quietly-discuss

Bilderberg 2025 Elites Quietly Discuss 'Depopulation' Behind Closed Doors in Stockholm

Bilderberg's press release webpage refuses to be archived by Wayback Machine or archive.ph. ...

Bilderberg claims the public’s concerns about the group’s aims are nothing but “wild allegations” with “no merit.”

It laments that these so-called “conspiracies” keep gaining traction online, signaling the elites’ frustration that too many people are taking notice. ...

This year, Bilderberg elites are explicitly gathering to discuss “Depopulation and Migration,” according to a press release, whose webpage cannot be archived by Wayback Machine or archive.ph.

(Why block public archiving of a press release about private discussions on reducing population?)

Not just migration, but depopulation, a term that by definition refers to a reduction in population.

https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2025/press-release-2025

71st Bilderberg Meeting to take place 12 - 15 June in Stockholm, Sweden

STOCKHOLM, 12 June 2025 – The 71st Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 12 – 15 June 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media has been invited. The list of participants is available on bilderbergmeetings.org.

The topics for discussion this year are:

Transatlantic Relationship
Ukraine
US Economy
Europe
Middle East
Authoritarian Axis
Defence Innovation and Resilience
AI, Deterrence and National Security
Proliferation
Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
Depopulation and Migration

https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/us-news/jd-vance-gets-suspended-from-x-competitor-bluesky-just-12-minutes-after-first-post/

Vice President JD Vance was suspended from the left-leaning social media platform Bluesky on Wednesday, just minutes after joining and sharing his first post.

“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis,” Vance wrote in his first post on the X competitor. “So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”

The vice president went on to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender medical treatments for minors.

“To that end, I found Justice [Clarence] Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating,” Vance wrote, including a screenshot of the conservative justice’s statement agreeing with the 6-3 ruling.

“He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” the vice president continued. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids.”

“What do you think?”

Within 12 minutes of the post, and Vance announcing on X that he had joined the platform, his Bluesky account was suspended, according to Axios journalist Marc Caputo.

“Not found. Account has been suspended,” read a message on Vance’s Bluesky page.

The ban was brief, as the vice president’s account was reinstated just minutes later.

It does not appear that the vice president’s post ran afoul of any of Bluesky’s community guidelines.

No doubt it's patrolled by woke AI.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/belgian-nationalist-given-12-month-suspended-sentence-because-someone-else-shared

Belgian conservative-nationalist Dries Van Langenhove has again been sentenced on appeal to one year in prison as a suspended sentence for what the judge said were violations of the Racism and Negationism Act.

The sentence stems from racist memes that were not even posted by him, but by members of a group chat he administrated seven years ago.

The sentence was delivered today by the Court of Appeal in Ghent, although Van Langenhove does not accept the sentence, and the case now goes into cassation.

On X, Van Langenhove simply wrote, “Guilty. 12 months in jail. Madness.”

https://x.com/DVanLangenhove/status/1935958654127411699

@grok
Dries Van Langenhove was convicted on June 20, 2025, by the Ghent Court of Appeal for violating Belgium’s racism and negationism laws. Charges include promoting hate speech, Holocaust denial, and incitement to discrimination through his far-right group, Schild & Vrienden. Additional charges involve illegal possession and sale of pepper spray. He received a one-year suspended sentence and a €1,600 fine, with an appeal planned. The case has sparked debate over free speech versus hate speech laws.

He later clarified upon receipt of the written verdict that the custodial sentence “appears to be a suspended sentence,” which he suspects is “most likely because the prisons in Belgium are literally full of illegal migrants.”

“Most people don’t realize that the end result of such a sentence is the same. One politically incorrect tweet can now put me in jail. One meme sent by someone else in a group chat I am in can turn the suspended sentence into an effective one. This suspended sentence is the gravest form of censorship they could pursue and an effective way to kill activism,” he added. ...

“It is a black day for free speech, for Flanders, and for Europe,” said Van Langenhove when he came out. “Me, my family, and my environment have been terrorized for humor in a private chat group for seven years. Unfortunately, the court never wanted to listen to me, even now.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14842359/Norwegian-tourist-21-barred-entering-US-ICE-guards-meme.html

A Norwegian tourist claims he was harassed and refused entry to the US after immigration officers found a meme of JD Vance on his phone.

Mads Mikkelsen, 21, arrived at New Jersey's Newark Airport on June 11, excited about his holiday.

But, his plans were thrown into disarray when he was reportedly pulled aside by border control and put in a cell.

The tourist was then subjected to what he described to Norwegian outlet Nordlys as an 'abuse, of power and harassment'.

'They asked questions about drug trafficking, terrorist plots and right-wing extremism totally without reason,' he told the outlet.

Mr Mikkelsen, claimed the officers then threatened him with a $5,000 fine or five years in prison if he refused to give the password to his mobile phone.

The guards reportedly found a meme on the device's camera roll showing US vice president JD Vance with a bald, egg-shaped head.

Mikkelsen said after discovering the image the authorities sent him home to Norway the same day.

If true, this is terrible, just like the UK censorship.

Patrick says

If true,

Unlikely to be true. An important detail is likely missing. There is no way he was sent back just because of that image.

72 hour rule.