John Whitehead

Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror…

Rutherford Institute Challenges Government Efforts to Censor Speech & Pressure Tech Companies to Block, Ban, De-Platform & Restrict Users

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Rutherford Institute is challenging the government’s efforts to censor lawful First Amendment expression by pressuring social media companies to block, ban, remove, de-platform, de-boost, restrict, or otherwise deny equal access or visibility to users.…

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom – 3 Years Later, We’re Still Failing

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”—Francis Bacon The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict…

The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer

“The madmen are in power.”— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of…

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother & the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

“Big Brother is Watching You.”―George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the…

Supreme Court Gives Government the Green Light to Obstruct Citizens From Voting at Polling Places Based on Content of Speech on Clothing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has given government officials the green light to obstruct citizens from voting at polling places based on the content of speech displayed on their clothing. By refusing to hear an appeal…

Terror by Night: Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do

“We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the…