Censorship

Censorship articles deliver in-depth analysis of the global censorship industrial complex — the coordinated efforts by governments, Big Tech, agencies, and institutions to suppress dissent — and their devastating impacts on public health, free trade, individual liberty, free speech, open dialogue, scientific debate, and policy reform.

We expose mechanisms like government-sponsored censorship, social media suppression, digital authoritarianism in the West (e.g., UK, Canada, Germany, France), disinformation laundering through agencies (CISA, DHS, Treasury), fact-checking industrial complex, self-censorship in science and medicine, COVID-era narrative control, online scrubbing, and threats to mental health discourse, university independence, and sovereign media. Brownstone critiques how these practices distort medical judgment, erode trust in institutions, enable technocratic overreach, and undermine personal freedoms and evidence-based policy.

All censorship articles from Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages to promote global access, foster international resistance to suppression, and empower readers worldwide to defend free expression and challenge centralized control.

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The Declaration That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen

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The problem with the Great Barrington Declaration was not that it was not true. It’s that – unbeknownst to its authors – it flew in the face of one of the most funded and elaborate industrial plots in the history of governance. Just a few sentences sneaking through the wall of censorship they were carefully constructing was enough to threaten and eventually dismantle the best laid plans. 

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Internet Censorship, Everywhere All at Once

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The conundrum for free and open societies has always been the same: How to protect human rights and democracy from hate speech and disinformation without destroying human rights and democracy in the process. The answer embodied in the recent coordinated enactment of global censorship laws is not encouraging for the future of free and open societies.

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The Costs and Casualties of Government’s Information Total War

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Government censorship reduces our society to just two groups of people: the censors and the censored. While it remains in place, the ranks of the censored will be ever-expanding as the censors require ever more censorship to ensure people continue to disbelieve their lying eyes.

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The Dangers of Self Censorship During the Covid Pandemic

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To compound this any expert or publication that dared raise a challenge would be investigated by fact-checkers and predictably labeled as misinformation and subsequently censored. Everyday citizens, on the receiving end of this distorted information machine, were left without any previously respected outlet for any well-founded skepticism. A few spoke out and were virtually ostracized from mainstream society. Many others saw the writing on the wall and, wishing to maintain their relationships and avoid uncomfortable situations, kept their opinions to themselves.

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Australia’s Misinfo Bill Paves Way for Soviet-Style Censorship

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History tells us that censorship regimes never end well, though it may take a generation for the deadliest consequences to play out. The draft legislation is now under review following a period of public consultation. Hopefully, the Australian Government will take the historical lesson and steer Australia off this treacherous path. 

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The Brilliant Legal Mind of John Sauer

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On July 20, our attorney John Sauer—a brilliant legal mind and a force of nature in the courtroom—testified before a Congressional hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Emma-Jo Morris, the journalist who originally broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was subsequently censored under pressure from the FBI, also testified. In a “you can’t make this stuff up moment,” one committee member began this hearing—a hearing on the topic of government censorship—by calling for a vote to censor the hearing itself, shielding it from public view and removing it from the public record. 

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The Censors’ Henchmen

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If there were any remaining doubts about the federal government’s censorship activities, this new evidence should settle every question. During the Covid years, the government effectively nationalized all the main social media portals and converted them to become propaganda vehicles for bureaucrats while demoting or completely blocking contrary views. There is simply no way this practice can survive serious juridical scrutiny. 

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YouTube Censors Australian Politician’s Maiden Speech to Parliament

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While the Lib Dems are benefiting from the Streisand effect for the time being, Member of the European Parliament, Christine Anderson, is dealing with YouTube censorship by suing the social media platform. Anderson reports that YouTube blocked two videos from parliamentary sessions in which she acted on the official Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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We Landed a Major Blow Against the Censorship Leviathan

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One naturally wants to believe that an issue one is involved in is of world-historical importance. But as the judge himself wrote in the decision, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” That, my friends, is a strong claim, but as I have previously argued, an entirely accurate one.

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The Unraveling of the Censorship Hegemon 

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At last this court action may finally provoke a debate about the administrative state that embarked on the great silencing. Its machinery seized control of the country in March 2020 in a great turning point in American history. It’s taken more than three years to finally observe a major pushback. The struggle to maintain freedom will always be with us as a great task of every generation. 

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