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‘Free Speech’ fans call for censoring TikTok as Chinese plot to make Israel look bad

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 13, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

Axios (10/31/23) reported that in a two-week period, TikTok saw “nearly four times the number of views to TikTok posts using the hashtag #StandwithPalestine globally compared to posts using the hashtag #StandwithIsrael.” As a result, the conservative outrage machine kicked into high gear.
The Free Speech exception

Originally published: Boston Review on October 30, 2023 by Radhika Sainath (more by Boston Review) | (Posted Nov 07, 2023)

Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.
Biden DOJ indicts four Americans for “weaponized” free speech

Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 19, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog) |

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says “weaponized” the First Amendment rights of Americans.
Whose speech is the Free Speech Bill protecting?

Originally published: Red Pepper on April 29, 2022 by Jack Ballingham (more by Red Pepper) | (Posted May 11, 2022)

The government’s clampdown on free speech is part of a wider campaign to erode all civil liberties. Students must resist, writes Jack Ballingham
The fight over free speech on campus

Originally published: Red Flag on February 23, 2018 by Daniel Taylor (more by Red Flag) | (Posted Mar 02, 2018)

On university campuses around the world, “free speech” is becoming the favourite slogan of the right, sure to be raised during campus political controversies.