PEN America notes that while fewer gag order measures have become law this year compared to 2021, this year’s spike in bills has included proposals that are far more punitive.
Censorship Wave in US Education
Category: Censorship
Covering Up Slavery in the Birth of the US
As some politicians try to shackle educators with restrictive laws, Raphael E. Rogers recommends using historical records to show the role that slavery played in the forming of a nation.
SCOTT RITTER: Chuck Schumer’s War on Free Speech
The Senate majority leader pushed through a funding bill that now supports a structure under which U.S. citizens and politicians — including a challenger for his own seat — are being targeted as “information terrorists.”
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Whistleblower Crackdown
National Whistleblower Week is a call to action on behalf of Julian Assange, who marks a new extreme in a series of legal reprisals that have gotten more draconian since Kiriakou’s own national-security case in 2012.
UK Bill Threatens Journalists With Life in Prison
Journalists and publishers could face life sentences if National Security Bill 2022, being debated in the U.K. Parliament, becomes law, reports Mohamed Elmaazi.
Corbyn on the Establishment’s Campaign Against Him
In an interview with Matt Kennard, the former Labour Party leader speaks candidly about British media, the U.K. military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia.
Send Nina Jankowicz a Message: Donate to the ‘Useful Idiots’
The former head of the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board thinks Consortium News is a bunch of “useful idiots.” Show her what you think of this 27-year old, independent news site.
Caitlin Johnstone: Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information for Western Intelligence
The best propaganda is generally a mixture of truth with half-truth, distortion, lies by omission and the removal of context and perspective.
Sweeping Threat to Free Speech in UK
Journalists and civil-society staffers could be sentenced to life imprisonment for offences committed under a bill championed by Home Secretary Prit Patel, Richard Norton-Taylor reports.
NewsGuard’s Scarlet Letter
The spirit if not the letter of the First Amendment prohibits both sophisticated and simple-minded violations of free speech, writes Bruce Fein.