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Prominent Niger Journalist Feared Forcibly Disappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/03/prominent-niger-journalist-feared-forcibly-disappeared #Nigeria #FreePress #ViolenceAgainstJournalists #MoussaKaka #disappeared

Prominent Niger Journalist Feared Forcibly Disappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/03/prominent-niger-journalist-feared-forcibly-disappeared #Nigeria #FreePress #ViolenceAgainstJournalists #MoussaKaka #disappeared

Prominent Niger Journalist Feared Forcibly Disappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/03/prominent-niger-journalist-feared-forcibly-disappeared #Nigeria #FreePress #ViolenceAgainstJournalists #MoussaKaka #disappeared

Prominent Niger Journalist Feared Forcibly Disappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/03/prominent-niger-journalist-feared-forcibly-disappeared #Nigeria #FreePress #ViolenceAgainstJournalists #MoussaKaka #disappeared

Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire #uspoli #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StandfordStudentNewspaper #TrumpRegime #journalism #TrumpFascism #GOPfascism

Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire #uspoli #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StandfordStudentNewspaper #TrumpRegime #journalism #TrumpFascism #GOPfascism

Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire #uspoli #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StandfordStudentNewspaper #TrumpRegime #journalism #TrumpFascism #GOPfascism

Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire #uspoli #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StandfordStudentNewspaper #TrumpRegime #journalism #TrumpFascism #GOPfascism

Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire #uspoli #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StandfordStudentNewspaper #TrumpRegime #journalism #TrumpFascism #GOPfascism

#EuGH ⚖️ zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/EuGH-zu-Social-Media-Posts-Auch-kurze-Beitraege-sind-urheberrechtlich-geschuetzt-11442222.html #SocialMedia #copyright #Urheberrecht #Pressefreiheit #FreePress #journalism #Journalismus

#EuGH ⚖️ zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/EuGH-zu-Social-Media-Posts-Auch-kurze-Beitraege-sind-urheberrechtlich-geschuetzt-11442222.html #SocialMedia #copyright #Urheberrecht #Pressefreiheit #FreePress #journalism #Journalismus

#EuGH ⚖️ zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/EuGH-zu-Social-Media-Posts-Auch-kurze-Beitraege-sind-urheberrechtlich-geschuetzt-11442222.html #SocialMedia #copyright #Urheberrecht #Pressefreiheit #FreePress #journalism #Journalismus

#EuGH ⚖️ zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/EuGH-zu-Social-Media-Posts-Auch-kurze-Beitraege-sind-urheberrechtlich-geschuetzt-11442222.html #SocialMedia #copyright #Urheberrecht #Pressefreiheit #FreePress #journalism #Journalismus

#EuGH ⚖️ zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/EuGH-zu-Social-Media-Posts-Auch-kurze-Beitraege-sind-urheberrechtlich-geschuetzt-11442222.html #SocialMedia #copyright #Urheberrecht #Pressefreiheit #FreePress #journalism #Journalismus

The show of force appeared aimed at not just ferreting out anyone who may have shared information, but intimidating others who might do so in the future, acc/to people with knowledge of the effort.

…The scope of the investigation is without parallel. Mass #polygraph tests have never been administered to the top ranks of the #US #military in modern history.

#Trump #Hegseth #transparency #MilitaryReadiness #MafiaState #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #fascism

#US government investigators have taken the extraordinary step of subjecting roughly 50 members of the #military’s #JointStaff to #polygraph tests over leaks to #journalists, including about how the #Iran #war has created a shortage of crucial munitions, acc/to officials briefed on the move.

#Trump #Hegseth #MilitaryReadiness #transparency #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #MafiaState #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/politics/pentagon-staff-polygraph-tests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.SYLz.KGEu4ztorAmj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

A quotation from Hugo Black

In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)

More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog

The #FCC has limited power over issues like this, & its own website states the agency “cannot prevent the broadcast of any particular point of view,” so the notion of “punishment” for #KristenWelker, the moderator of #NBC’s “Meet the Press,” would historically [& legally] be a nonstarter.

But #BrendanCarr has been quick to respond to #Trump’s requests to go after #media organizations. And he has taken aggressive action against some #FCC licensees…

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress

The posts were Trump’s most explicit efforts yet to direct the #FCC to carry out his wishes. FCC Chair #BrendanCarr, a Trump appointee & close ally, did not respond to request for comment.

#Trump posted a long missive Sunday about what he described as mischaracterizations of his endorsement record in primaries.

#law #democracy #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #dictatorship #MafiaState

The #FCC, led by its chairman, #BrendanCarr, called for an unusual, early review of the broadcast licenses last spring, citing ABC’s internal diversity & inclusion practices. None of the #ABC licenses, which have terms of 8 years, were up for renewal yet. Carr’s decision came after the ABC late-night host, #JimmyKimmel, angered #Trump with a monologue joke.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #dictatorship #fascism

A quotation from Voltaire

Had there been a literary censorship in Rome, we should have had to-day neither Horace, Juvenal, nor the philosophical works of Cicero. If Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Locke had not been free, England would have had neither poets nor philosophers; there is something positively Turkish in proscribing printing; and hampering it is proscription.
 
[S’il y avait eu une inquisition littéraire à Rome, nous n’aurions aujourd’hui ni Horace, ni Juvénal, ni les œuvres philosophiques de Cicéron. Si Milton, Dryden, Pope, et Locke, n’avaient pas été libres l’Angleterre n’aurait eu ni des poètes, ni des philosophes: il y a je ne sais quoi de turc à proscrire l’imprimerie, et c’est la proscrire que la trop gêner.]

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]

More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85406/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #authors #censorship #classics #freepress #freedomofthepress #history #literature #perspective

A quotation from Voltaire

As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
 
[Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]

More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers

A quotation not from Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
(Spurious)

More about this misquote: wist.info/voltaire/34462/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #defense #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #integrity #principle #selfsacrifice

Every time. Cuz even they know it’s illegal.

#Trump #DOJ to Withdraw #Subpoenas Issued to #NewYorkTimes #Journalists

A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which #NYT said were an attempt to #intimidate the #FreePress.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #journalism #FourthEstate #democracy #dictatorship #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/media/new-york-times-subpoenas-withdraw.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Trump has long been a harsh critic of the #news #media. But in his second term in office, he has moved aggressively to use the immense powers of the federal government in his efforts to attack the #press.

Earlier this year, the #DOJ sought to compel testimony from #journalists at The Wall Street Journal & The Washington Post. The DOJ withdrew the #subpoenas after both news organizations fought back in sealed filings.

#law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism #authoritarianism #MafiaState

#NYT #journalists who received #subpoenas included Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager & Eric Schmitt, who reported on Wednesday that #Trump had departed Turkey on the old #AirForceOne as a #security precaution at the urging of the #SecretService. Thursday, NYT reported that the new Air Force One, a #Qatar donated Boeing 747-8, lacked some of the advanced security features of the older aircraft, including antimissile capabilities. Both articles cited anonymous sources….

#law #FreePress

The #subpoenas contain few specifics, asking only that the #journalists testify “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law.” They were issued by #JayClayton, the #USattorney in Manhattan. Clayton, who leads one of the country’s most prominent law enforcement offices, was recently nominated by #Trump to serve as director of national intelligence [ #DNI ].

#law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState

In some cases, the #subpoenas were delivered by federal agents who showed up at #reporters’ homes.

The #NYT denounced the admin’s actions.

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the #Constitution & the #PressFreedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The NYT’s top newsroom lawyer, in a statement Friday evening.

#law #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #democracy #Trump #fascism #MafiaState

The #Trump admin issued #subpoenas Friday to several journalists for #TheNewYorkTimes, after the news outlet reported this week on #security concerns involving #Trump’s new #Qatar donated #AirForceOne.

The subpoenas — which seek to force the #reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday — were an extraordinary escalation in Trump’s efforts to #threaten & #intimidate independent news organizations.

#law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/business/media/new-york-times-trump-subpoenas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Friday, May 1, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/friday-may-1-2026/

Apr. 27, Monday — 7pm ET / 4pm PT
‘Big Media and the Rise of Authoritarianism: How We Fight Back’
https://bit.ly/FightBigMedia

Victor Pickard, Matt Pearce, Dan Sinykin, Jax Deluca, & Tony Pecinovsky; moderated by Morgan Harper & Sarah Katz

#NationalWritersUnion #FreelanceSolidarityProject #NewsGuild #NewsGuildCWA #RebuildLocalNews #MediaPowerCollaborative #FreePress #DocumentaryProducersAlliance #FutureFilmCoalition

This is what #DarrenBeattie — & #MikeBenz —have long called for. Many of the names & keywords he included in his request reflect #ConspiracyTheories & #grievances promoted by Revolver News—which Beattie founded after being fired from his job as a speechwriter during the first #Trump admin when CNN reported that he had spoken at a conference with #WhiteNationalists.

#disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html

#RCMP arbitrarily decides who's a #journalist & who isn’t & prevented journalists from #accessing sites of #Indigenous resistance. When #media fought back RCMP reduced those barriers only to #obstruct journalists’ ability to #document arrests. #Mounties have aimed guns at journalists. They’ve #arrested & #jailed #reporters for doing their job. These are #incursions on journalists’ & all #Canadians #ConstitutionalRight to a #FreePress 💥
https://breachmedia.ca/the-rcmp-suppresses-honest-reporting-about-colonialism

#KKKanada #FirstNations #DefundRCMP

@alfredo_liberal I'm having my doubts, that the guy, who Trumpers yelled to have hanged is one of them...

Nonetheless:

Chris Licht is the Eloon Musk of CNN, obviously.

#TruthWins #FreePress vs #BribedPress #PartisanMedia #NewsHoes #CorporateMedia #ManipulativeMedia #Corruption #Bias