Iranian women are risking their lives in a confrontation with Islamic tyranny, while Danish public service and the entire left look the other way. The silence is not accidental—it is ideological. And it is yet another argument for abolishing media subsidies.
South of the border, democracy, freedom of expression, and press freedom are currently in deep crisis. Yet state-funded media remain silent about it. That is deeply troubling.
“The Trump administration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s entry ban last week on Europe’s censorship-industrial complex is condemned by those in power and their state-funded media in Europe, but a thorough article in an independent German outlet exposes close ties between the country’s old ruling parties and a dangerous censorship-industrial complex that defends censorship and its public gatekeeper role by repeating and elevating a thoroughly Orwellian propaganda falsehood.”
In December, Ursula von der Leyen intervened in freedom of expression by placing the Switzerland-based commentator Jacques Baud on the EU’s sanctions list. Now the EU is also threatening the Swiss journalist and publisher of the independent outlet Weltwoche, Roger Köppel, with yet another attack on free speech. How much authoritarian EU interference will the Swiss be prepared to tolerate?
A well-organised network of activists is flooding Wikipedia with anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist propaganda, rendering the platform unreliable. The US Congress is now investigating foreign Islamist influence on Wikipedia.
The terror attack on Bondi Beach was not an aberration, but yet another consequence of Islamist ideology and Western appeasement.
Chairman Aia Fog and Deputy Chairman Michael Pihl of Danish Free Press Society comments on The Free Speech Union and their obvious lack of interest in supporting the working class.
