US STATE DEPT. LAUNCHES FREE SPEECH SITE FOR EUROPEANS

Echoing Secretary of State, Marco Rubio's speech in Munich last weekend (link), in which he called on Europe to save itself, the State Dept. has now launched a website, http://freedom.gov, to help European users circumvent content bans in Europe and elsewhere. The project, overseen by Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, would include VPN-style tools that allow users to by-pass national restrictions by routing traffic through the United States. Rubio and Undersecretary Sarah Rogers have criticized Europe's relentless drive to smother free speech.

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The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship. — Reuters

The site will be hosted at "freedom(dot)gov,” pic.twitter.com/aBflfRiqZk

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) February 18, 2026

The ideological chasm between America and Europe could not become wider than the Atlantic Ocean at this point. Unless the Europeans come to their senses, the bond of shared values and common civilization between the old and the new countries, will be irreparably damaged.

As we have explained (link), the problem is the definition both sides attach to the concept of rights: to Americans, human rights are inherent in human beings; that's why they are called human rights. To Europeans, the State determines by law what is a right and what is not. 

Details below. 

External reading

European Conservative: Freedom.gov: The U.S. Plan To Help Europeans Bypass EU Speech Controls (link)

The problem became acute when woke postmodernism started to grip the West's intellectual class and the ruling elites. People on the margins of society took over the center ground, making abnormality the norm. According to this ideology, words have the capacity to harm people.

This initiative by the Trump administration reveals that present Western European leadership is no better than Iran or China when it comes to the mother of liberty, free speech rights. Without it, every other right that sets us apart from tyranny, will shortly be lost.

This American free speech platform is the digital, present day version of the Cold War era broadcasts of Radio Free Europe. That's how far we've already descended into the abyss of tyranny. 

Here's a barrage of speech laws planned or already enacted across the European continent in just the last 24 hours. For the protection of the children of course 😇 In no particular order. 

The EU's plan to CONTROL elections.⁰⁰

Watch our comprehensive interrogation of the EU’s initiative to control speech and determine elections,

with @jacobreynolds, @Norm_Lewis, @tangercorreamep and @JaroslavBzoch. pic.twitter.com/QfA6cxTSJ3

— MCC Brussels (@MCC_Brussels) February 18, 2026

"There is one area of activity in Brussels which is completely democratically without controls," former German EU Commissioner Günter Verheugen tells Die @welt:

"Delegated acts." This is a grey area. "Bureaucrats get together and decide on something that affects the lives of…

— Pieter Cleppe (@pietercleppe) February 18, 2026

Brussels just made a catastrophic mistake. A Berlin court ordered X to hand over Hungarian election data to researchers Germany funds — weeks before the vote.

They’re trying to setup up another Romania. If they try to soft coup Hungary's election and fail, every populist in… pic.twitter.com/LKU65sW1v3

— THE ISLANDER (@IslanderWORLD) February 18, 2026

🚨🇪🇺🇭🇺 BREAKING:

The EU will try EVERYTHING to destroy Viktor Orbán and Hungary

Their NEW PLAN has just been EXPOSED!

A Berlin court just FORCED X (Twitter) to hand over MASSIVE election data to an NGO called Democracy Reporting International (DRI) funded heavily by the EU… pic.twitter.com/bfgq5IjUG6

— Global Dissident (@GlobalDiss) February 18, 2026

🚨🇫🇷 Macron: "Free speech is a pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided through this so-called free speech, especially when it is to be guided from one hated speech to another hated speech." pic.twitter.com/NQkF4NrYPw

— Reclaim The Net (@ReclaimTheNetHQ) February 18, 2026

Macron wants one verified identity per person on every social media platform. No anonymous accounts. No pseudonyms. No separation between your personal and public life. He calls it protecting democracy. It's a surveillance registry with a speech filter attached. https://t.co/NjCJhnxc6q

— Reclaim The Net (@ReclaimTheNetHQ) February 19, 2026

And now Germany.

All governments want the same things, coincidentally and for different reasons. Apparently.

There comes a point where NOT believing in a supra-national global power is the crazy position. https://t.co/2Z1W8okzQs

— OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) February 18, 2026

MULLVAD VPN ON STARMER'S VPN LAW: “The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification,” Mullvad VPN said in a post on Mastodon. “A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to… https://t.co/vGN7aqe65Y

— Robin Monotti (@robinmonotti) February 18, 2026

"Unbelievable. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just stood on the world stage and grouped the MAGA movement with Russian aggression and Chinese expansionism. Berlin would rather cozy up to Beijing than respect American voters. This is how you destroy an alliance. 🇩🇪🇺🇸"

— "Global Monitor" (@GlobalMonirh) February 19, 2026

People hide behind fake accounts because they get censored, harassed, fired or even doxxed for their political opinion.

Western European governments have become champions of online censorship. Their tolerance for free speech, especially critical of their migration policy, gender… https://t.co/rDwm8ZGwcs

— András LÁSZLÓ MEP 🇭🇺 (@laszloan) February 19, 2026

Notice how none of these developments are ever democratic.

Davos elites serving billionaire and corporate interests decide what's best for themselves.

The decisions are presented to a democratic Parliament as "given".

Those who oppose the decisions because they harm the… https://t.co/SmvHvye5f3

— Johannes M. Koenraadt (@johannesmkx) February 19, 2026

NOW - Greece's PM says banning social media for minors and adolescents "goes hand in hand with a democratic responsibility" to ensure "that technology strengthens the public square rather than overwhelms us with disinformation and hate," and that if dialogue with big tech fails,… pic.twitter.com/qJ9shDiUYr

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 19, 2026

When Charlie Hebdo journalists were murdered for publishing cartoons, Europe and America united to defend the free speech, EVEN if it was offensive.

Free speech isn't bullsh*t. Period. https://t.co/kXsqPRLhD9 pic.twitter.com/7NaSNlxm6j

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) February 18, 2026

Liz Truss is joined by Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) to unpack how the “Blob” / Deep State operates across the transatlantic alliance — from career bureaucracies and revolving-door institutions to NGOs, think tanks, grant funding, and narrative control. pic.twitter.com/3whq1wetNi

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) February 18, 2026

German government official sarcastically thanks German journalist for mentioning the EU Commission's extra-legal sanctions regime on people for "speech crimes", as those who may criticise the gov't - he calls them "abusers of free speech" - need to be aware of the consequences... https://t.co/5c5aSwjIam

— Richard Werner (@scientificecon) February 19, 2026

The EU is turning into an absolute clown world

It has the highest density of stupid, out-of-touch leaders on the planet

𝕏 has open-sourced its entire core algorithm and keeps shipping real transparency every single day.... the only major platform on Earth to do this

Yet these… pic.twitter.com/4cZxykZBcu

— X Freeze (@XFreeze) February 18, 2026

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