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Globalist West Cracking Down on Conservative Free Speech

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Free speech is under attack under leftist-globalist governments in several countries with conservatives in the crosshairs of their law enforcement and judicial machinery&period; Whether it’s the United Kingdom &lpar;UK&rpar;&comma; Canada&comma; or Australia&comma; the authorities are restricting conservative free speech for both journalists and others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In February this year&comma; British police reportedly threatened Christian street preachers in Uxbridge&comma; London&comma; with hate crime charges&period; As reported by <em>The Christian Post<&sol;em>&comma; the incident followed the case of a cop confronting singer Harmonie London over singing Christian songs outside church grounds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In September&comma; Fox News reported on the threat to free speech under Britain’s leftist government that selectively applies its hate speech laws to target certain groups&period; The targeted groups in news are nearly always the Christian conservatives&comma; or what some term nationalists&comma; who raise a voice against the destruction of the country’s culture and safety by an overflow of immigrants from non-Christian&comma; mainly Muslim nations&period; The story wrote&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><em>Britain is facing a free speech crisis as the new left-wing government&comma; overzealous police and courts crackdown on freedom of expression&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In October&comma; the media regulating authority of Ireland adopted a new &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Online Safety Code” that is applicable to Facebook&comma; Instagram&comma; YouTube&comma; Udemy&comma; TikTok&comma; LinkedIn&comma; X&comma; Pinterest&comma; Tumblr&comma; and Reddit – all social media platforms that allow video-sharing&period; While the regulation has been promoted as protective of users&comma; particularly minors from harmful content on these sites&comma; free speech advocates rang alarms of concern&period; The banned categories bracketed under the code are vague and can easily be abused to politically target anyone&period; Bev Turner of GB News called it a full-scale assault on free speech and online privacy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bitchute&period;com&sol;video&sol;k5R65XTabY52">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bitchute&period;com&sol;video&sol;k5R65XTabY52<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In Australia&comma; the leftist government introduced new hate crime legislation in September that would criminally prosecute anyone&comma; to cite Reuters&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;if they targeted a person&&num;8217&semi;s race&comma; gender&comma; ethnic origin&comma; religion or sexual orientation&period;” The law could award offenders up to five years in prison for what the government sees as a hate crime and&comma; notably&comma; jail someone for seven years if they issue threats that pose a danger to the government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In late October&comma; popular American conservative commentator Candace Owens was banned from visiting Australia where she was scheduled to speak at some events&period; The reason behind the Australian government’s decision was said to be Owens’ commentary on topics like the Holocaust and slavery&period; Owens is a black woman who has strongly opposed identity politics and has been harshly critical of leftist narratives on most issues&period; Just days ago&comma; Owens was also refused a visa to New Zealand by the country’s leftist government&comma; implying a pattern of denial of free speech to select conservative voices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In Canada&comma; conservative Jewish journalist and commentator Ezra Levant of <em>Rebel News<&sol;em> was arrested in Toronto on November 24 at a public demonstration by anti-Israel protesters&period; Levant wrote that Toronto Police accused him of causing a disturbance when journalism was all he was doing&period; Levant was interviewed by Fox News a day later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1080" height&equals;"608" data-videoid&equals;"xZdU5&lowbar;k0Hdk" title&equals;"Ezra Levant speaks with Fox News after shocking arrest while covering pro-Hamas protest"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;xZdU5&lowbar;k0Hdk"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;xZdU5&lowbar;k0Hdk&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Ezra Levant speaks with Fox News after shocking arrest while covering pro-Hamas protest"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;

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