patrick.net

https://www.foundationforfreedomonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FFO-FLASH-REPORT-REV.pdf

Rep. Ayanna Pressley openly admits she’s willing to work with anyone who wants to CENSOR Americans.

They aren’t even hiding it anymore—free speech is the enemy to Democrats.

https://greenmedinfo.com/content/truth-reconciliation-and-surgeon-generals-cover-vaccine-injuries

I've been reading Christopher Rufo's "The American Cultural Revolution" where he documents that this is literally the position of the BLM and DIE people.

Free speech for anyone other than blacks is racism, according to them.

https://educationdojo.com/study-break/2025/02/02-24-education-dojo-daily/#thought_control

I was called some of these names and got a 30-day ban from Facebook for a single post discussing the rampant Covid spread in the professional sports leagues in 2021. I simply pointed out the obvious facts that the leagues were at or near 100 percent vaxxed, were tested every week, were required to wear masks nearly all the time, and had restrictions on going out in public. Anyone with a brain should have been able to figure out the measures weren’t preventing contracting or spreading the virus, yet I’m a covidiot and anti-vaxxer for pointing it out. 🙄 And don’t even get me started on the climate change bullshit. I’ve listened to 40+ years of world-is-ending predictions from charlatans. As a kid, I watched schools across America shove Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth down the throats of impressionable minds. None of his predictions came true, of course, but it did make him a billionaire.

I did get acknowledgement from Peets that they are censoring gab.ai and urbandictionary.com via their wifi:

We are not blocking Gab.com on our WIFI. We blocked Urbandictionary.com and Gab.ai from Patrick's device. These sites have been classed as adult which is why they are blocked.

My response:

I really appreciate the time you put into this.

I can understand blocking porn sites, but neither urbandictionary.com nor gab.ai are porn sites. They are just politically incorrect text-based sites.

So sadly, it looks like Peets is dictating political views to its customers.

Please don't do that. I and most of your customers would like to see the full range of political views. Censorship is wrong.

Patrick

https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=secrecyandsociety

Ideological and financial motivations have undermined science for decades.
In this narrative review, we explore how organizations and governments
used misinformation, disinformation, censorship, and secrecy to manage the
COVID-19 pandemic. Various rationales for employing censorship and
secrecy during the COVID-19 pandemic are examined including how
organizations and governments create confusion about the risks associated
with their products and blame avoidance to shift responsibility and to avoid
accountability for their actions. Methods of censorship employed during the
COVID-19 pandemic are reviewed, examples are provided, and the
consequences of these actions are reviewed. Information included in this
review was obtained from scientific papers, government documents, mass
media articles, books, and personal accounts of physicians and scientists. We
examine how the use of censorship and secrecy created a challenge for
scientists, physicians, politicians, and the general public in trying to
understand COVID-related topics. Finally, strategies for managing censorship
and secrecy during a pandemic are presented.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/why-censorship-is-the-most-important

Why Censorship is the ‘Most Important Thing’ to the Rulers of the World

A two-step program explains just about everything: 1. Create a false narrative which allows the control of the masses. 2. Create a system where these false narratives cannot be exposed.

A recurring theme in my writing is that powerful and evil organizations seek to control the population of the world by creating and disseminating false or dubious narratives intended to create great fear in the masses.

The same people and organizations also go to great lengths to conceal stories/scandals that, if exposed, would reveal their duplicitous/diabolical true character.

While I argue society would benefit greatly if more people possessed the critical thinking abilities to identify and dismiss fear narratives that are contrived and irrational, certain developments in the world are genuinely frightening and should be feared. ...

This objective might be summarized as follows:

“Now that we’ve scared enough people to be able to control their thinking and behavior, it’s very important that we also create a system that makes it almost impossible for people to realize the Fear Narratives we created were false and contrived all along.”

The goal of the Censorship Industrial Complex and now-ubiquitous “fact-checking” organizations is to neutralize or minimize the influence of every person who does possess the ability to see what’s really occurring.

Fortunately, “adults in the room” still exist in the world. Unfortunately - and by design - these wise citizens do not possess influence of a degree sufficient enough to harpoon bogus and toxic false narratives.

When someone thinks about all of this and connects the right dots, one realizes the project to protect dubious fear narratives is both massive and diabolical.

It turned out that the people with the motive and means to produce Fear Narratives also possessed the means and motivation to produce a system that labeled skeptics as “spreaders of disinformation and misinformation,” people who should be cancelled and whose views should be suppressed, dismissed or discredited.

MolotovCocktail says

Yeah, it's like out of the frying pan into the fire if you move from CA to TX. Phelan's an alcoholic who is slurring drunk during session. When the republican's win elections they just give away half of the committee seats to the democrats in some sort of uniparty bs. Last year (maybe year before) I think TX tried to criminalize slurs against Jews. So much for free speech.

Phelan was the guy who spearheaded the attack on Paxton. I rooted for Paxton but then this is now in play and I think Paxton is part of it too: https://patrick.net/post/1384365/2025-04-26-charles-perry

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

MolotovCocktail says

Yeah, it's like out of the frying pan into the fire if you move from CA to TX. Phelan's an alcoholic who is slurring drunk during session. When the republican's win elections they just give away half of the committee seats to the democrats in some sort of uniparty bs. Last year (maybe year before) I think TX tried to criminalize slurs against Jews. So much for free speech.

Phelan was the guy who spearheaded the attack on Paxton. I rooted for Paxton but then this is now in play and I think Paxton is part of it too: https://patrick.net/post/1384365/2025-04-26-charles-perry

Don't get excited. This bill just means that when you doctor some image or video and change what was really said or done, you must include a disclaimer stating that it is altered. It does not forbid satire, it just stops deep fakes.

Well, if you live in Texas, Rep. Phelan’s new bill makes it a criminal offense to distribute media that features an “image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality” unless it includes a government-approved disclaimer.
https://texaspolitics.com/2025/04/30/is-the-texas-house-criminalizing-memes/

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

Last year (maybe year before) I think TX tried to criminalize slurs against Jews.

Never happened. What did happen is that unelected Government Employee-Administrators were forbidden from unilaterally carrying out foreign policy. For example, University Admins refusing to buy for certain individuals or countries on their own whims.

Rokes are constantly trying to exaggerate laws like that into "Free Speech" issues. The Assistant Purchasing Manager for Facilities of a UT campus cannot simply decide to not consider certain bids because she, Begum Al-Maliki, doesn't like Jews or Israel and gives a contract to her Uncle's fly-by-night IT firm that runs by outsourcing everything to his Muslim Brotherhood pals in Pakistan

Patrick says

Ironic that talking about the weather is what caused Mark Steyn to get sued.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-backstory-of-substack

Still, By 2022, NGOs such as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and articles in The Washington Post and The Atlantic argued that Substack could be over-run by disinformation super spreaders, anti-vaxers and extremists including “Nazis.”

According to one CCDH video presentation, “five popular anti-vaccine newsletters” generate “at least $2.5 million a year … Substack makes 10 percent profit off of their lies. It’s got to stop,” the video concludes. ...

The company’s founders fought back against the pressure campaign, issuing a statement that said: “We make decisions based on principles not PR, we will defend free expression, and we will stick to our hands-off approach to content moderation.”

Today, Substack has more than 35 million users and at least five million paid subscriptions.

But a lot of people, like Bill Rice, the author of that Substack post, that Substack is deliberately hiding content which tells the truth about the mass murder by mandated mRNA.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-pensioner-receives-75-day

German pensioner receives 75-day prison sentence in latest speech crime scandal to hit the Federal Republic

Twice last year, the man repeated the expression “Alles für Deutschland”1 in posts on X – apparently in the course of discussing the indictment of Alternative für Deutschland politician Björn Höcke for the use of the same phrase. The words are forbidden in Germany by Section 86a of the German Criminal Code, which bans National Socialist slogans and symbols. While “Alles für Deutschland” occurs in various contexts, the phrase is associated particularly with the Sturmabteilung, or the SA, who carved the words onto their uniform daggers.

The Traunstein Public Prosecutor brought charges against our pensioner last autumn. The District Court convicted him in November and imposed a fine of €4,500, which he was unable to pay due to financial hardship. Rather than granting the usual deferral or instalment plan, prosecutors have summoned him to serve 75 days in prison instead. He will begin his sentence on 5 June.

This is the latest in a long string of speech crime prosecutions in Germany, as our political establishment collaborates with police and prosecutors to intimidate ordinary people who say untoward things on social media. Last November, another German pensioner from Bavaria had his house raided by police for the crime of sharing a meme on X that called former Economics Minister Robert Habeck a “moron.” Others have been prosecuted for such trivialities as tweeting the poop emoji at a cabinet minister, calling Greens fat and stupid, imprecisely quoting important politicians, and reproducing a picture of former Health Minister Karl Lauterbach with his hand raised at an unfortunate angle. In most such cases, convicted speech criminals receive fines (however ruinous), although harsher sentences are not unheard-of.

Patrick says

Fortunately, no problem with that here in the USA, as Candace, Tuqar, IfNotNow (supported by Tides/Soros), The Unz Review, Center for the National Interest, Antiwar.com, MintPress News, Strategic Culture Foundation, etc. etc. say and print tons of shit critical of just one foreign nation.

BTW, I gnoticed that Unz now is taking the Muslim side now in anti-Indian propaganda:
https://www.unz.com/bhua/indian-mass-delusion-syndrome-on-full-display/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/literally-thursday-may-29-2025-c

Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio

For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by
foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.
Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to
foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans.
Free speech is essential to the American way of life - a birthright over which
foreign governments have no authority.

Our enemies have long silenced and punished American speech. This is most clearly seen in the banning of US-based social media platforms, for example. But it’s our allies, such as the European Union, who’ve begun criminalizing speech, recently arresting Telegram’s founder, for example. And they are suing the dickens out of Twitter and Facebook, as two more examples, for violating their stupid online speech codes.

Ironically, George Orwell was British.

Foreign leaders will be desperate to avoid being put on Rubio’s “list” because it doesn’t just block their access to the United States— it publicly brands them as enemies of American liberty. Being sanctioned under a speech-based visa restriction effectively exiles them from the global stage, cutting off face-to-face diplomacy, high-level trade talks, swanky elite conferences, and media platforms that all flow through Washington, New York, and Silicon Valley.

Worse, becoming a diplomatic persona non grata invites political embarrassment back at home, and emboldens the leaders’ rivals to circle like sharks. For a ruling-class technocrat or regulator whose power depends on international status and institutional access, being blacklisted by the U.S. is career poison. The threat of losing that privilege turns the list into a geopolitical electric cattle prod— and Rubio’s message seems clear: if you target American speech, you could forfeit your seat at America’s table.

This is the first time in U.S. history that foreign officials could face personal diplomatic consequences for participating in the global censorship-industrial complex and collectively violating Americans’ constitutional rights.

The move is part of the bigger theme we’ve been tracking — that the Trump administration is reversing the vectors of power, especially on censorship, lawfare, and institutional corruption. Rubio’s visa ban on foreign censors is the next chess move. It’s early, and it was just an announcement, so I don’t want to speculate too much yet about how hard this geopolitical haymaker could land.

https://x.com/LeoLins

8 YEARS: Jail term for comic over his jokes

Brazil's Leo Lins 'is being treated like a drug
trafficker'

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for cight years and
three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up
special.

A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins's work
contributed to "the spread of verbal violence in society
and promotion of intolerance.

The Brazilian government brought the case, saying the
comedian's material targetted black people, the obese.
elderly people, those living with HIV, LGBT people,
evangelicals, Indigenous communities, people from the
impoverished northeast of Brazil, Jews and people with
disabilitics.

His lawyers criticised the ruling, saying in a statement: a
"This is a sad chapter for freedom of expression in Brasil.

I asked ChatGpt to translate this line from Marie LePen:



Je suppose que ce sont encore les contribuables qui vont payer la remise en état des gribouillages de ces destructeurs d’extrême gauche !

It deleted the text, but then also translated it? WTF?

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/bilderberg-2025-elites-quietly-discuss

Bilderberg 2025 Elites Quietly Discuss 'Depopulation' Behind Closed Doors in Stockholm

Bilderberg's press release webpage refuses to be archived by Wayback Machine or archive.ph. ...

Bilderberg claims the public’s concerns about the group’s aims are nothing but “wild allegations” with “no merit.”

It laments that these so-called “conspiracies” keep gaining traction online, signaling the elites’ frustration that too many people are taking notice. ...

This year, Bilderberg elites are explicitly gathering to discuss “Depopulation and Migration,” according to a press release, whose webpage cannot be archived by Wayback Machine or archive.ph.

(Why block public archiving of a press release about private discussions on reducing population?)

Not just migration, but depopulation, a term that by definition refers to a reduction in population.

https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2025/press-release-2025

71st Bilderberg Meeting to take place 12 - 15 June in Stockholm, Sweden

STOCKHOLM, 12 June 2025 – The 71st Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 12 – 15 June 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media has been invited. The list of participants is available on bilderbergmeetings.org.

The topics for discussion this year are:

Transatlantic Relationship
Ukraine
US Economy
Europe
Middle East
Authoritarian Axis
Defence Innovation and Resilience
AI, Deterrence and National Security
Proliferation
Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
Depopulation and Migration

https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/us-news/jd-vance-gets-suspended-from-x-competitor-bluesky-just-12-minutes-after-first-post/

Vice President JD Vance was suspended from the left-leaning social media platform Bluesky on Wednesday, just minutes after joining and sharing his first post.

“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis,” Vance wrote in his first post on the X competitor. “So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”

The vice president went on to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender medical treatments for minors.

“To that end, I found Justice [Clarence] Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating,” Vance wrote, including a screenshot of the conservative justice’s statement agreeing with the 6-3 ruling.

“He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” the vice president continued. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids.”

“What do you think?”

Within 12 minutes of the post, and Vance announcing on X that he had joined the platform, his Bluesky account was suspended, according to Axios journalist Marc Caputo.

“Not found. Account has been suspended,” read a message on Vance’s Bluesky page.

The ban was brief, as the vice president’s account was reinstated just minutes later.

It does not appear that the vice president’s post ran afoul of any of Bluesky’s community guidelines.

No doubt it's patrolled by woke AI.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/belgian-nationalist-given-12-month-suspended-sentence-because-someone-else-shared

Belgian conservative-nationalist Dries Van Langenhove has again been sentenced on appeal to one year in prison as a suspended sentence for what the judge said were violations of the Racism and Negationism Act.

The sentence stems from racist memes that were not even posted by him, but by members of a group chat he administrated seven years ago.

The sentence was delivered today by the Court of Appeal in Ghent, although Van Langenhove does not accept the sentence, and the case now goes into cassation.

On X, Van Langenhove simply wrote, “Guilty. 12 months in jail. Madness.”

https://x.com/DVanLangenhove/status/1935958654127411699

@grok
Dries Van Langenhove was convicted on June 20, 2025, by the Ghent Court of Appeal for violating Belgium’s racism and negationism laws. Charges include promoting hate speech, Holocaust denial, and incitement to discrimination through his far-right group, Schild & Vrienden. Additional charges involve illegal possession and sale of pepper spray. He received a one-year suspended sentence and a €1,600 fine, with an appeal planned. The case has sparked debate over free speech versus hate speech laws.

He later clarified upon receipt of the written verdict that the custodial sentence “appears to be a suspended sentence,” which he suspects is “most likely because the prisons in Belgium are literally full of illegal migrants.”

“Most people don’t realize that the end result of such a sentence is the same. One politically incorrect tweet can now put me in jail. One meme sent by someone else in a group chat I am in can turn the suspended sentence into an effective one. This suspended sentence is the gravest form of censorship they could pursue and an effective way to kill activism,” he added. ...

“It is a black day for free speech, for Flanders, and for Europe,” said Van Langenhove when he came out. “Me, my family, and my environment have been terrorized for humor in a private chat group for seven years. Unfortunately, the court never wanted to listen to me, even now.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14842359/Norwegian-tourist-21-barred-entering-US-ICE-guards-meme.html

A Norwegian tourist claims he was harassed and refused entry to the US after immigration officers found a meme of JD Vance on his phone.

Mads Mikkelsen, 21, arrived at New Jersey's Newark Airport on June 11, excited about his holiday.

But, his plans were thrown into disarray when he was reportedly pulled aside by border control and put in a cell.

The tourist was then subjected to what he described to Norwegian outlet Nordlys as an 'abuse, of power and harassment'.

'They asked questions about drug trafficking, terrorist plots and right-wing extremism totally without reason,' he told the outlet.

Mr Mikkelsen, claimed the officers then threatened him with a $5,000 fine or five years in prison if he refused to give the password to his mobile phone.

The guards reportedly found a meme on the device's camera roll showing US vice president JD Vance with a bald, egg-shaped head.

Mikkelsen said after discovering the image the authorities sent him home to Norway the same day.

If true, this is terrible, just like the UK censorship.

Patrick says

If true,

Unlikely to be true. An important detail is likely missing. There is no way he was sent back just because of that image.

72 hour rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murthy_v._Missouri

Murthy v. Missouri (2024), originally filed as Missouri v. Biden, was a case in the Supreme Court of the United States involving the First Amendment, the federal government, and social media. The states of Missouri and Louisiana, led by Missouri's then Attorney General Eric Schmitt, filed suit against the U.S. government in the Western District of Louisiana. They claimed that the federal government pressured social media companies to censor conservative views and criticism of the Biden administration in violation of the right to freedom of expression. The government said it had only made requests, not demands, that social media operators remove misinformation.

On July 4, 2023, Judge Terry A. Doughty issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting several agencies and members of the Biden administration from contacting social media services to request the blocking of material, with exceptions for material involving illegal activity. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that there had been some coercion in the government's contact with social media companies in violation of the First Amendment, but narrowed the extent of Doughty's injunction to block any attempts by the government to threaten or coerce moderation on social media. The U.S. Supreme Court initially stayed the Fifth Circuit's order, then granted review of the case by writ of certiorari. On June 26, 2024, the Court ruled 6–3 that the states lacked standing to bring suit.

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/us-supreme-court-denied-chd-censorship-case-facebook-meta

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) petition to hear its case against Meta over the company’s collusion with government officials to censor CHD content on Facebook. ...

CHD sued Meta in August 2020 and filed an amended complaint in November 2020, alleging that government actors partnered with Facebook to censor CHD’s speech — particularly speech related to vaccines and COVID-19 — that should have been protected under the First Amendment.

The company deplatformed CHD from Facebook and Instagram in August 2022 and has not reinstated the accounts.

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in August 2024 sided with Facebook, ruling that Meta’s censorship was the result of the company’s policy rather than government coercion. ...

CHD CEO Mary Holland, who said CHD is “deeply disappointed” that the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, told The Defender:

“It has been obvious since the time the case was filed in August 2020 that Facebook and its allied media worked hand in glove with the federal public health authorities to censor CHD and to promote government-sponsored false information on COVID and other vaccine issues.”

CHD General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg echoed Holland’s disappointment. She said:

“We at CHD believe strongly that consumers of media have a right to hear a variety of viewpoints and sources and that those like CHD that communicate information that may challenge the prevailing narrative have a right to be heard.

“These are fundamental hallmarks of democracy, and it is deeply disheartening that the Supreme Court chose not to address this critical issue.”

https://infodujour.fr/sciences/81051-la-science-encore-censuree

Un colloque international au Palais Brongniart, à Paris, a été annulé à la dernière minute. Des scientifiques voulaient dénoncer la corruption et les pressions qu’ils subissent lorsqu’ils remettent en cause la parole officielle.

Décidément, il est difficile de faire entendre une autre voix que la voix officielle sur les questions de santé publique. À preuve, ce colloque international organisé par des personnalités du monde scientifiques ou des affaires telles de Joseph Tritto, David Anderson ou Andrew Marsh, qui devait se tenir au Palais Brongniart à Paris du 27 au 29 juin 2025. Avec des invités de renom comme le Pr Robert Malone, ce célèbre biologiste moléculaire à l’origine des vaccins ARN messager ou encore Jean-Marc Sabatier, Docteur en biologie cellulaire et microbiologie, HDR en biochimie, directeur de recherche au CNRS que connaissent bien les lecteurs d’infodujour.

Il s’agissait de dénoncer la corruption insupportable qui règne dans l’industrie du médicament qui prospère grâce à la complaisance, pour ne pas dire la complicité, des organismes officiels, nationaux ou internationaux, comme l’OMS. Or, au dernier moment, ce colloque a été annulé.

An international conference at the Palais Brongniart in Paris was canceled at the last minute. Scientists had intended to denounce the corruption and pressure they face when challenging official narratives.

It seems increasingly difficult to voice perspectives that diverge from official positions on public health matters. Case in point: this international symposium organized by prominent figures from the scientific and business communities—including Joseph Tritto, David Anderson, and Andrew Marsh—which was scheduled to take place at the Palais Brongniart in Paris from June 27 to 29, 2025. The event was to feature distinguished guests like Dr. Robert Malone, the renowned molecular biologist pivotal to developing mRNA vaccines, and Jean-Marc Sabatier, a PhD in cell biology and microbiology with accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in biochemistry and a CNRS research director, well-known to readers of Info du Jour.

The aim was to expose the intolerable corruption plaguing the pharmaceutical industry, which thrives thanks to the indulgence—if not outright complicity—of national and international regulatory bodies like the WHO. Yet, at the eleventh hour, the conference was canceled.