Freespeech & Protest
In NL UK & USA
Bottom line: these countries
are becoming authoritarian
per 2024 2025
0402 2025ad EFF / NYT:
The intense crackdown on students’ free speech “really does just seem to be an expansion in law enforcement power that maybe didn’t exist 20, 25 years ago,” EFF’s @SairaHussain87 told @NYTimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/universities-students-search-warrants.html
0329 2025ad EFF:
Without Section 230, the internet becomes more hostile, less open, and more dominated by giants.
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0326 2025ad index on censorship:
“The final verdict is a severe attack on freedom of expression and the right to protest, posing a serious risk to free speech and the fundamental right to peaceful protest” @CASECoalition responds to the SLAPP suit against @Greenpeace
0326 2025ad EFF:
Some senators want to play chicken with Big Tech by advancing a bill to eliminate the critical free speech protections of Section 230. But Big Tech could absorb the changes to the law. It’s startups, small platforms, and everyday users who would be crushed.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/230-protects-users-not-big-tech
0325 2025ad X Twitter / London oil criminals:
Women Take on Big Oil with Citizen’s Arrests 1/ BREAKING: Women in London conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives over alleged public nuisance offences linked to climate harm. @CitizensArrestN
0323 2025ad common dreams:
The nation’s stability is directly tied to the stability of this country’s younger generations.
0323 2025ad common dreams / Sanders:
“The American people will not allow Trump to move us into oligarchy and authoritarianism. We will fight back. We will win,” said Sanders.
0322 2025ad common dreams:
Trump and his allies seemingly hope to manufacture a future in which any public critic of the administration or its friends can be defined, and prosecuted, as a “terrorist” for whom basic civil liberties can be summarily suspended.
0320 2025ad index on censorship:
We condemn the North Dakota jury’s ruling forcing @Greenpeace to pay at least $660 million over a Dakota pipeline protest from more than a decade ago. The decisions threatens to bankrupt their #US operations and represents a threat to protest rights
Earlier
Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study
The Guardian september 2024
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Revealed: how the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
The Guardian september 2024
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Holland
Politie en OM gaan harder en sneller optreden tegen actievoerders
https://nos.nl/artikel/2507914-politie-en-om-gaan-harder-en-sneller-optreden-tegen-actievoerders
NOS February 2024
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