patrick.net

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.