From the United Kingdom to the United States, free speech is under attack like never before. Will our nation survive without this right?

From CBN. A censorship movement is rising in the world’s democracies – whether it’s British citizens charged over social media posts, France’s arrest of the owner of the social media platform Telegram, Brazil’s shutting down Elon Musk’s X for not complying with censorship restrictions, or Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that the Biden White House pressured Facebook and Instagram to censor stories it didn’t like.

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“This anti-free speech movement is the most sophisticated, largest and global movement we have ever faced,” says legal scholar Jonathan Turley, author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

Turley says, “I think the problem with free speech is that every generation has to defend it. And this generation has never been more divided, because they have been told that free speech is going to hurt them.”

A poll last month by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found nearly one in three Americans now believe the First Amendment “goes too far. ” …

An investigation by the Foundation for Freedom Online found documents from Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA that indicate that as recently as 2021, the agency worked with platforms to censor speech by labeling people posting so-called “misinformation” as “domestic threat actors,” a possible First Amendment violation. The website showing the operation was then scrubbed from the internet but was found using the “Wayback Machine.”  …

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from USAID, a State Department program intended to strengthen democracies overseas, show that the agency encourages other nations to censor social media.

In other Western democracies, the censorship situation is even worse.

In Great Britain, a nation most Americans used to consider a bastion of democracy, police charge thousands of citizens each year over their social media posts. …

The Europe Union no longer has free speech online, according to technology expert Dr. Norman Lewis with the think tank MCC Brussels. He contends only speech approved by the EU is allowed.

Lewis told us, “What we have operating in Europe is what I like to call a ‘censorship operating system.'”

Laws like the EU’s Digital Services Act force technology companies to remove content Brussels doesn’t like. …

“There really is what I call an ‘EU Ministry of Truth,'” Lewis says. “George Orwell would recognize this within a millisecond.” …

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(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: Norman Rockwell – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16925968)