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Paul Coleman

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Lawyer | Exec Director @ADFIntl | Protecting fundamental freedoms & promoting the inherent dignity of all people | Author of Censored | ADFInternational.org

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Free speech is under threat in a way it hasn’t been since the nightmare of Europe’s authoritarian regimes just a few decades ago. Reclaim The Net covers our work to expose the dangers of the Digital Services Act.

Free speech is under threat in a way it hasn’t been since the nightmare of Europe’s authoritarian regimes just a few decades ago.

<a href="/ReclaimTheNetHQ/">Reclaim The Net</a> covers our work to expose the dangers of the Digital Services Act.
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Last summer, then-EU Commissioner Thierry Breton warned two Americans (Donald Trump and Elon Musk) about having a conversation on an American platform (X). Through the Digital Services Act, Brussels elites want to censor the entire internet! A clip from my podcast in the

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2016 was the year Western elites realized freedom of speech was working against them, as more and more citizens were voting the "wrong" way. They convinced themselves free speech was dangerous and their role was to "save democracy through censorship".

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The Economist is right. Europe really does have a problem with free speech. Just ask PƤivi RƤsƤnen. The sitting politician faces criminal trial at the Finnish Supreme Court - all because a Bible verse Tweet she posted in 2019.

The Economist is right. Europe really does have a problem with free speech.

Just ask PƤivi RƤsƤnen.

The sitting politician faces criminal trial at the Finnish Supreme Court - all because a Bible verse Tweet she posted in 2019.
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And to think that under the DSA, this unelected, powerful, unaccountable body has been given has been given a blank cheque to censor the speech of millions of Europeans.

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Rod Dreher explains why the subtle yet nefarious censorship in the West today means that, as a survivor of communism said, "in some ways it was easier under communism":

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ā€œThe suppression of speech, facilitation of mass migration, targeting of religious expression, and undermining of electoral choice threatens the very foundation of the transatlantic partnership.ā€ — Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor (DRL)'s Samuel Samson shares more, in our Substack. statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-for…

ā€œThe suppression of speech, facilitation of mass migration, targeting of religious expression, and undermining of electoral choice threatens the very foundation of the transatlantic partnership.ā€ — <a href="/StateDRL/">Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor (DRL)</a>'s Samuel Samson shares more, in our Substack. statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-for…
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šŸ“° Revue de presse sur notre Ć©vĆ©nement/conference šŸ—£ļø avec ADF International ! Merci Ć  Adina Portaru et l’ensemble de son Ć©quipe. šŸ™šŸ» 4ļøāƒ£ Articles qui reviennent sur l’ensemble de notre confĆ©rence, pour rappeler les dĆ©rives du #DSA (Digital Surveillance Act) : europeanconservative.com/articles/news/…

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The Digital Services Act is an EU regulation that threatens free speech online, not only in Europe—but across the whole world. Paul Coleman, Rod Dreher and Stephen Nikola Bartulica unpacked this in Brussels—the beating heart of the EU. WATCH the full discussion now ā¬‡ļø

The Digital Services Act is an EU regulation that threatens free speech online, not only in Europe—but across the whole world.

<a href="/Paul_B_Coleman/">Paul Coleman</a>, <a href="/roddreher/">Rod Dreher</a> and <a href="/StjepoBartulica/">Stephen Nikola Bartulica</a>
unpacked this in Brussels—the beating heart of the EU.  

WATCH the full discussion now ā¬‡ļø
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It really is a terrible answer on so many levels. Incoherent, contradictory, and deeply, morally flawed. Abortion as the "least worst option". Least worst option for who? Not the baby! Not the 11 million babies aborted in the UK since 1967.

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This paper argues that the #Digital Services Act of the #EuropeanUnion, by focusing on risks, pushes rights to a second-order concerns in ways that contradict current human & fundamental rights #jurisprudence. Read: spkl.io/6012ffQWm Subscribe: spkl.io/6015ffQWU

This paper argues that the #Digital Services Act of the #EuropeanUnion, by focusing on risks, pushes rights to a second-order concerns in ways that contradict current human &amp; fundamental rights #jurisprudence.

Read: spkl.io/6012ffQWm
Subscribe: spkl.io/6015ffQWU
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šŸŽ‰ 10 years of ADF International in Brussels! Grateful for a decade of advocacy in Europe’s capital — defending conscience, promoting freedom of expression. Honoured to celebrate and look ahead with steadfast allies!

šŸŽ‰ 10 years of <a href="/ADFIntl/">ADF International</a> in Brussels! 
Grateful for a decade of advocacy in Europe’s capital — defending conscience, promoting freedom of expression. Honoured to celebrate and look ahead with steadfast allies!
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This has been a very successful few days in Brussels. In Parliament, I’ve met with representatives from Poland, Spain, Croatia, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, and Sweden. I’ve conducted interviews with The Times; the European Conservative, the most influential

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Wonderful to moderate this panel presenting the work of amazing allied lawyers here in Africa advancing religious freedom and opposing persecution in their countries and across the continent. #IRFSummitAfrica Alliance Defending Freedom ADF International IRF Summit

Wonderful to moderate this panel presenting the work of amazing allied lawyers here in Africa advancing religious freedom and opposing persecution in their countries and across the continent. #IRFSummitAfrica <a href="/ADFLegal/">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> <a href="/ADFIntl/">ADF International</a> <a href="/IRFSummit/">IRF Summit</a>
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A warning from Canada to the UK: You think "assisted dying" will be limited to some demographic of persons you'd endorse to have their lives ended prematurely. But one day, it'll be someone you love and would never expect who's at risk—and then what? (True stories from šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦)

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Let Canada's euthanasia experiment be a warning to the UK. • Euthanasia will not be limited. • Euthanasia will undermine suicide prevention efforts. • Euthanasia will devalue the lives of people with disabilities. • Euthanasia will threaten the doctor-patient relationship.