The following article, House Passes Tyrannical Anti-Free Speech Measure As Pro-Palestinian Protests Rage Across the Nation, was first published on Big League Politics. On May 1, 2024, the United States House passed a bill that aims to crack down on alleged antisemitism on university campuses. This bill was passed at a time when pro-Palestinian protests have raged across the nation.  The bill in question is the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which was introduced by New York Congressman Mike Lawler and was passed by a 320-91 vote. Only 21 Republicans — Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie being the most prominent opponent of the measure — and 70 Democrats stood against the measure.  The bill would mandate the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism when implementing anti-discrimination laws. The organization defines antisemitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews”, while adding that “Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” The organization lists several examples for what constitutes antisemitism, which includes calls for harming Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist interpretation of a religion, and accusing Jewish individuals of fabricating or exaggerating the Holocaust. The vote occurred as pro-Palestinian protests on dozens of college campuses across the nation have gathered steam in recent days. Demonstrators occupied a building at Columbia University, which provoked a swift political response. Over 1,500 individuals have been arrested on university campuses nationwide since April 18, per a CNN report. The protesters have used chants and slogans such as “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and have demanded their institutions divest from companies with connections to Israel. A select few progressive

Image by Sasha Kimel Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Truth Social, Twitter  Reprinted with permission•Mises Wire•Mustafa Ekin Turan If you have been using the internet for longer than a couple of years, you might have noticed that it used to be much “freer.” What freer means in this context is that there was less censorship and less stringent rules regarding copyright violations on social media websites such as YouTube and Facebook (and consequently a wider array of content), search engines used to often show results from smaller websites, there were less “fact-checkers,” and there were (for better or for worse) less stringent guidelines for acceptable conduct. In the last ten years, the internet’s structure and environment have undergone radical changes. This has happened in many areas of the internet; however, this article will specifically focus on the changes in social media websites and search engines. This article will argue that changes in European Union regulations regarding online platforms played an important role in shaping the structure of the internet to the way it is today and that further changes in EU policy that will be even more detrimental to freedom on the internet may be on the horizon. Now that readers have an idea of what “change” is referring to, we should explain in detail which EU regulations played a part in bringing it about. The first important piece of regulation we will deal with is the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market that came out in 2019. Article 17 of this directive states that online content-sharing service platforms are liable for the copyrighted content that is posted on their websites if they do not have a license for said content. To be exempt from liability, the websites must show that they exerted their best efforts to