Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian prime minister, criticized Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta for displaying its “cowardice” after the social media giant removed a post from his Facebook page offering condolences to a Hamas official after Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader.
Germany is grappling with pro-Palestinian protests and critics say it is banning free speech in the country in its effort to atone for its Holocaust atrocities against Jews during WWII.
New York’s Columbia University announced last week that it suspended Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine for allegedly expressing threatening rhetoric and “intimidation,” New York Jewish Week reported.
The New York Times announced last week that a reporter resigned after violating the paper’s policy when she signed an open letter condemning Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Top politicians from South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s People Power Party have announced new efforts to crack down on the news media by resorting to lawsuits and new regulations to weed out so-called “fake news” outlets.
For many years, we have been forecasting Censorship 2.0, the new way of the world among so-called democratic nations to censor freedom of speech.