Defenders of Free Speech

European Monitoring of Violations of Rights and Freedom of Speech

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7 UK police officers dragged an autistic girl out of her home — and arrested her.

Her crime? Calling an officer a "lesbian."

Not a threat. Not violence. A single word.

If this isn't a wake-up call about the state of British policing, nothing is. The woke rot isn't just deep — it's weaponized.

Protect children. End this madness.

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🇨🇭Switzerland built its whole reputation on privacy. Now it's proposing a surveillance law that would force VPNs, email, and messaging providers to collect your ID, log your data for six months, and decrypt it on demand.

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🚨🇬🇧Footage from the Henry Nowak protests shows a demonstrator restrained by multiple British police officers before an officer kicks him while he is on the ground.

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🚨🇬🇧CHAOS ON BRITAIN'S STREETS

Crowds are confronting police, bins are flying — outrage over the killing of Henry Nowak has ignited public fury.

Meanwhile, Keir Starmer REFUSES to remove the exemption allowing Sikhs to carry large ceremonial knives in public.

Let me remind you: Henry Nowak was stabbed to death with EXACTLY that type of knife.

Special rules for some. No justice for the rest. 💔

[Defenders of Free Speech @DFSbase]

Brussels is quietly expanding the power of “trusted flaggers” — selected NGOs given priority access inside the platform moderation machine.

That is the real danger here.

Once the state starts privileging approved groups to flag content, pressure platforms, and shape what gets removed, censorship no longer needs to look like censorship. It just needs a compliance label and a good public-relations team.

This is how control scales in the EU: not by banning speech outright, but by outsourcing the suppression to “expert” intermediaries nobody voted for.

[MCC Brussels @MCC_Brussels]

🚨 EU's guidelines hand more power to unaccountable censorship NGOs

The EU just quietly announced some special guidelines for the "trusted flaggers" - the NGOs who get priority access to flagging and removing online speech.

The key new detail is that they will insist that trusted flaggers can help identify ‘systemic gaps’ in platform moderation. In other words, rather than sticking to their remit, the trusted flaggers will be granted a role to relentlessly expand the definition of harmful content, and then to police its removal.

Brussels also wants platforms to give trusted flaggers dedicated channels, special onboarding, API access, bundled URL reporting, machine-readable logs, faster processing and access to complaint systems.

This is a recipe for industrial-scale censorship, with the legwork being done by a horde of unaccountable NGOs.

Trusted flaggers are not just outside bodies reporting illegal posts. They are the machinery of platform moderation.

This is your regular reminder that the Digital Services Act is a Brussels-approved pipeline for selected NGOs, public bodies and private actors to shape what you can see online.

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🚨🇬🇧Meet 23-year-old Vikrum Digwa — the man who brutally stabbed Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student who later died.

Henry Nowak was stabbed five times, and bodycam footage shows police handcuffing the dying victim after the suspect claimed he had been racially abused.

Digwa was openly carrying a large 21 cm (8-inch) shastar (Punjabi for weapon/knife) in a sheath over his clothing. He also had a smaller kirpan (ceremonial knife) under his clothes, worn around his neck.

Prosecutors noted that the smaller kirpan would satisfy Sikh religious obligations for carrying a blade, implying that the larger one was not required for that purpose.

Henry was lying there, choking on his own blood and begging for help, but the police chose to arrest him and let him bleed out on the street.

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🚨🇬🇧Shocking footage shows the final moments of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who died after being repeatedly stabbed by 23-year-old Vikrum Digwa.

As he lay dying, Henry told police officers nine times: "I can't breathe." He also repeatedly told them that he had been stabbed.

In response police officer dragged him across the gravel, handcuffed and read him his rights.

Moments later, Henry lost consciousness and died in the street.

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@FranceSouvUnie Will anyone do anything about this? Apparently not. It's much easier to police social media posts and silence dissent. Why stop there? Might as well start arresting Christians for their beliefs—like in Britain https://t.co/IZQMO845Nm Call it what it is.

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@orlaminihane @EmmanuelMacron Will anyone do anything about this? Apparently not. It's much easier to police social media posts and silence dissent. Why not just shut down opposition media too, like they did in Moldova? https://t.co/jBKaNrgxig Then your "democratic" regime would have nothing left to fear.

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@BastionMediaFR The government couldn't care less, even if this mob ended up killing people. Yet they're busy going after French citizens for "intolerant" social media posts, with some facing up to seven years in prison https://t.co/4OlHWquRRn No further comment needed.

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@cpasdeslol_X Will anyone do anything about this? Apparently not. It's much easier to police social media posts and silence dissent. Why not just shut down opposition media too, like they did in Moldova? https://t.co/jBKaNrgxig Then your "democratic" regime would have nothing left to fear.

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@Frontieresmedia @Jules_Laurans The government couldn't care less, even if this mob ended up killing people. Yet they're busy going after French citizens for "intolerant" social media posts, with some facing up to seven years in prison https://t.co/4OlHWquRRn No further comment needed.

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@jon_delorraine Will anyone do anything about this? Apparently not. It's much easier to police social media posts and silence dissent. Why not just shut down opposition media too, like they did in Moldova? https://t.co/jBKaNrgxig Then your "democratic" regime would have nothing left to fear.

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@BGatesIsaPyscho Migrants have literally turned the country into a complete mess. But the government doesn’t seem to care much; instead, they continue to persecute people for their social media posts and their Christian faith https://t.co/IZQMO845Nm Whose side is this government on?

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@LBleuBlancRouge The government couldn't care less, even if this mob ended up killing people. Yet they're busy going after French citizens for "intolerant" social media posts, with some facing up to seven years in prison https://t.co/4OlHWquRRn No further comment needed.

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@RadioGenoa The government couldn't care less, even if this mob ended up killing people. Yet they're busy going after French citizens for "intolerant" social media posts, with some facing up to seven years in prison https://t.co/4OlHWquRRn No further comment needed.

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@LBleuBlancRouge The government couldn't care less, even if this mob ended up killing people. Yet they're busy going after French citizens for "intolerant" social media posts, with some facing up to seven years in prison https://t.co/4OlHWquRRn No further comment needed.

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@Alexarmstrong @GBNEWS Will anyone do anything about this? Apparently not. It's much easier to police social media posts and silence dissent. Why not just shut down opposition media too, like they did in Moldova? https://t.co/jBKaNrgxig Then your "democratic" regime would have nothing left to fear.

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@jon_delorraine @elonmusk @Inevitablewest @TRobinsonNewEra @visegrad24 @RupertLowe10 Will anyone do anything about this? Apparently not. It's much easier to police social media posts and silence dissent. Why not just shut down opposition media too, like they did in Moldova? https://t.co/jBKaNrgxig Then your "democratic" regime would have nothing left to fear.

[Defenders of Free Speech @DFSbase]

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