https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doctor-nyu-usaid-gaza-presentation-canceled “NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’” #NYU #Academia #FreeSpeech #USPolitics #USAID
Normal Island News
Doctor cancelled by New York University for attempting to tell truth about Gaza
We have decided cancel culture is good now
It’s fair to say, the free speech situation in the US is improving by the day. New York University has just cancelled a presentation from a doctor, due to concerns she might say something Israel disapproves of. If you didn’t get the memo, cancel culture is good now.
Berlin is deporting four foreign residents after their participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. Three are EU citizens, including two from Ireland.
The deportation orders are unlawful, but Berlin’s senate is going ahead anyway.
@hahauenstein #Germany #Gaza #Israel #freespeech #fascism
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/
“This administration has proven that we will take swift action to hold institutions accountable if they allow *antisemitism* to fester,” he added. “We will not hesitate to act if #Harvard fails to do so.”
Here we go again
#Trump admin will review roughly $9 billion in federal grants & contracts in funding for #Harvard
The admin has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants & contracts at Columbia & the University of Pennsylvania.
#USpol #education #research #science #academia #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/trump-administration-harvard-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=ABF06A27-648D-4D4E-A053-DBBE522822C8
All over the West, free speech is falling victim to pro-Israel supporters in government and institutions, and anything related to the Gaza genocide is being severely punished and suppressed with the blanket accusation of 'antisemitism'.
c: @5149jamesli on IG
'Doctor cancelled by New York University for attempting to tell truth about Gaza
We have decided cancel culture is good now'
https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/doctor-cancelled-by-new-york-university?r=iwr6t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#gaza #palestine #zionist #usa #warcrimes #freespeech
“Elon Musk’s control of X raises serious questions about corruption, manipulation, and conflicts of interest. Platforms like these shouldn’t be used to shape narratives or push personal agendas—democracy depends on fair discourse. #MuskManipulation #FreeSpeech” www.thestreet.com/breaking-new...
Elon Musk sells X, mostly to h...
Missed the protest at the Tesla dealerships and showrooms this weekend?
No worries!
Come out and protest with everyone at the State Capitol on April 5th!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/766199/
There are plenty of protests to go around!
(Aimed at @j12t, not @ariasalvatrice) So she has opinions. So what?
They are reasonable and much more politely expressed than some I have seen on this topic.
This is why the woke left is losing and I am here for it. The only shame is that the far-right is gaining ground instead of the rational left.
cc: @taylan @quasi
#FreeSpeech
@knittingknots2
I seem to recall some "#FreeSpeech Absolutist" multi-billionaire explaining THAT is why he needed to buy #Twitter. 
U.S. immigration is asking the public for feedback on a new proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for green cards and citizenship.
Free speech advocates are concerned over how expanded social media surveillance could impact asylum seekers, green card and citizenship applicants already living in the U.S. legally.
@AssociatedPress explains what the proposal means and how it might change online surveillance.
I have lived in countries with hate-speech laws. I have lived in countries with highly restrictive political speech laws.
It’s not unbearable. You are clear on what you cannot say. You learn the art of metaphor.
What’s unbearable is when you get TOLD you have the right to free speech and then the administration prosecutes or punishes you for exercising it, for no coherent reason.
That’s the terror that comes from the arbitrary application of power. #FreeSpeech #fascism #authoritarianism
A #RightWing Jewish group said some identified w/the tool were on a list of names it gave to #Trump’s admin, urging that they be deported in accordance w/his call for the expulsion of foreign #students who participated in “pro-jihadist” #protests.
Other pro-#Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on #campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in #Gaza to #ICE.
“Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!” a fledgling #technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its #FacialRecognition tool had identified the woman despite the coverings.
She was anything but a lone target. The same software was also used to review images taken during months of pro-#Palestinian marches at #US #colleges.
Private groups work to identify & report #student #protesters for possible #deportation
When a protester was caught on video in January at a NY rally against #Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask & headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along w/her name & employer, were circulated online.
#Trump #immigration #law #FacialRecognition #technology #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #dissent #CivilRights
https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef
An editorial by Trevor Timm for the Guardian, "Elon Musk has become the world's biggest hypocrite on free speech"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-musk-hypocrite-free-speech
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NPR article from 2022, "Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protestors"
"We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Gen. [Mark] Milley and said, 'Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?' ... It was a suggestion and a formal question. And we were just all taken aback at that moment as this issue just hung very heavily in the air."
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary
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And Musk did so by silencing anyone who disagreed, thus making the world safe for free speech.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/trump-tesla-boycott-musk
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I bet they'd be fine with PBS if Rupert owned it.
Why Republicans keep trying to murder Big Bird
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/29/2312935/-Why-Republicans-keep-trying-to-murder-Big-Bird
