#freespeech Timeline

248d

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/13/ujb-issues-expulsions-degree-revocations-and-suspensions-for-hamilton-hall-occupation/

#freespeech #fascism #trump #censorship #student #protest #university #columbia #gaza #genocide #FreePalestine

Breaking Columbia University had just suspended, expelled and revoked degrees from 22 students for protesting genocide in Palestine.

A university degree is a qualification, not a morality clause. A university revoking degrees for "wrong think" makes a total mockery of its mission. This is also the most authoritarian, "right- woke" nonsense.

ALT

0 0 1 View Post & Replies See Original

205d

Senior #State Department official sought internal communications with #journalists, #European officials, & Trump #critics

#Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & #RightWing buzzwords for a “#TwitterFiles” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/

0 0 0 View Post & Replies See Original

1y

re: #InfluencerGate

even if tim pool and benny johnson were just morons who had no idea they had become #russian assets (doubtful) the indictment is pretty clear that lauren chen is 100% a russian asset.

she's appeared on a who's who of right wing media: Fox News, BlazeTV, RT, OANN, #Newsmax, The Daily Wire, Rebel Media, #PragerU and The Rubin Report.

an interesting twist is that recently #LaurenChen had kind of gone batshit anti-trump. she also had a big "repeal the 19th amendment" phase. some folks are claiming that means she was a plant to damage the right. all i can think of is that KGB quote "our brand is chaos".

worth at least seeing Chen's anti-trump tweets: https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1831453510438998498

(screenshots from: https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1831433336293880183)

#Russia #Russian #propaganda #uspol #freespeech #Uspolitics #Election2024 #2024Election #Republicans #TenetMedia #BennyJohnson #Ukraine #TimPool #LaurenSouthern #DaveRubin #FoxNews #OANN #RT #Newsmax #RebelMedia #LaurenChen #TenetMedia

Edited 1y ago

0 0 1 View Post & Replies See Original

118d

20 years ago and still…

#politics #FreeSpeech #internet #tech

Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids

ALT

0 0 1 View Post & Replies See Original

243d

The #Trump admin is trying to deport *another* student, 21-yr-old #YunseoChung, a legal permanent resident, under the statute authorizing Secy of State #MarcoRubio to remove people deemed threat. She's lived here since childhood.

Chung wasn’t a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement, she only attended a few.

The #US is seeking to deport a person w/a #GreenCard since she was a child because she went to a #protest.

#law #immigration #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest

Yunseo Chung moved to the United States with her family from South Korea when she was 7 years old and was valedictorian of her high school.

ALT

Pursuant to the Policy, and consistent with remarks made by Secretary Rubio and by law enforcement agents who recently arrested another student at Columbia University,? Secretary Rubio purportedly made such a determination as to Ms. Chung ("the Rubio Determination"'). This determination was based on Ms. Chung's actual and perceived lawful activity protected by the First Amendment: participation in protests and statements regarding Palestine, Israel, and discipline of student protestors on campus. Pursuant to the Rubio Determination, ICE, a component of DHS, seeks to arrest Ms. Chung, detain her, and place her in removal proceedings, presumably to South Korea. Ms. Chung is now at active risk of being put in immigration detention and deported from the only country she has ever known.

ALT

1 0 0 View Post & Replies See Original

249d

This is beyond…

#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.

#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

0 0 0 View Post & Replies See Original

71d

New fallout from reactions to Charlie Kirk’s killing

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/new-fallout-from-reactions-to-charlie-kirk-s-killing-247534661692

People in multiple fields have been removed from their jobs after comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in social media posts.

#CharlieKirk #MAGA #FreeSpeech #1A #press

Edited 71d ago