Freedom of movement is definitely a good thing, but so is freedom of speech. This law in Northern Ireland fines anyone for "influencing" others seeking reproductive services within 100 meters of providers. This apparently includes speech unrelated to reproductive care. Such a precedent, if allowed to stand, would render conduct of millions of law-abiding Britons a misdemeanor.
#freeSpeech #NorthernIreland #UnitedKingdom #governmentOverreach #viewpointDiscrimination
Ein US-Bundesrichter hat Trumps Executive Order vom Mai 2025 für unrechtmäßig erklärt, die PBS und NPR die Bundesförderung entziehen sollte. Das Urteil schützt die Pressefreiheit und verbietet staatliche Retaliation gegen kritische Berichterstattung.
US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington ruled that the #Trump executive order to cease funding for #NPR & #PBS is unlawful & unenforceable. The judge said the #FirstAmendment right to #FreeSpeech “does not tolerate #ViewpointDiscrimination & #retaliation of this type.”
“It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like & seeks to squelch,” wrote Moss.
#Trump: " #BigMedia practices #viewpointdiscrimination and outrageously #factchecks Americans trying to use their #FirstAmendment Rights."
Also #Trump: "Here's a new official federal government list of fake, subversive, lying, seditious, evil, terrible, treasonous news outlets we don't like."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-press-media-bias-hall-of-shame-4571e8bfc924de0d83529b635be0a68c
President Donald Trump's White House has established a hall of shame for journalists it finds guilty of media bias as it looks for new avenues of attack against legacy news outlets. And it's calling on “everyday Americans” to participate with their own examples of where they consider journalists to be unfair. The Republican president has been criticizing “fake news” since his first term. Some of Trump's attacks have turned personal in the past month. Yet despite it all, the news outlet Axios pointed out this week that mainstream news sources are as dominant as ever in setting the agenda for Washington and — somewhat ironically — capturing the president's attention.
This is 100% the Malicious Practices Act of 1933 aka "Ordinance for the Defense against Malicious Attacks against the Government"
#Trump #fascism #ThoughtPolice #dissent #ViewpointDiscrimination #NaziInformants #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion
The memo also calls on the department's grant-making offices to prioritize awarding #funding to states & municipalities that have programs designed to protect against [thier definition of] “domestic terrorism”, & it instructs the #FBI to update & improve its tip line so that "witnesses & citizen journalists can send media of suspected acts of domestic terrorism."
#Trump #fascism #ThoughtPolice #dissent #ViewpointDiscrimination #NaziInformants #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion
‘Polarizing’ *journalist* #BariWeiss to become #CBSNews editor-in-chief in wake of controversial #Paramount merger
Opponents say Weiss’s ‘anti-woke’, pro-Israel stance will be like ‘dropping a grenade’ in the newsroom
#FourthEstate #journalism #media #Trump #censorship #ViewpointDiscrimination #propaganda #law #FreePress
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bari-weiss-cbs-paramount-merger-b2838771.html
The new #policy on "anti-Americanism" comes days after the #Trump admin tightened standards for #naturalization, moving away from a standard where the required "good moral character" is shown by an absence of disqualifying offenses to a rule where applicants must prove they are "worthy" of #citizenship.
#immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
The full #policy memo is here. The #Trump administration says that it will use its discretion to deny immigration #benefits to anyone it deems to have supported a group with "anti-American ideologies" or engaged in "anti-American activities."
#immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
Via Aaron Melnick:
#McCarthyism returns to #immigration #law, as #USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law & its definition is entirely up to the #Trump admin.
#Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
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