LA City Council bans N-word at public meetings, triggering legal threats
Watch your mouth! The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to ban the use of the N-word and C-word at public meetings — triggering free speech backlash and the threat ...
Tag: Censorship
Putin Criminalizes Online Searches for ‘Extremist’ Content
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law that criminalizes searches for “extremist” content on the internet, with fines of up to 5,000 rubles ($64) for each violation. The ...
FTC Merger Agreement Bars Discriminating Against Conservative Media Based on Political Viewpoint
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Monday announced that, as part of the FTC’s approval of a merger between two of the largest advertising companies, the advertising giants ...
Rubio announces US will bar foreign censors from getting visas
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the US will no longer allow foreign government officials “who are complicit in censoring Americans” from obtaining visas. “It is ...
India and Pakistan Exchange Heavy Artillery Fire While U.S. Urges De-Escalation
Indian and Pakistani forces traded artillery and small-arms fire across the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed province of Kashmir on Thursday night. Civilians living in the area described ...
South Korea Says China’s DeepSeek AI App Transferred User Data Overseas
South Korea’s data privacy watchdog agency, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), said on Thursday that China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) transferred user data to companies in China and the ...
State Department shutters controversial Global Engagement Center after COVID censorship controversy
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday shuttered the State Department’s controversial Global Engagement Center, which under the Biden administration faced heavy criticism from House Republicans who said ...
