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UK to censor Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Human Events
... in crackdown on streaming services. The Starmer Labour Party is moving to regulate the country’s biggest streaming platforms, putting services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video under the same content rules as traditional broadcasters. The change means Ofcom will now oversee major video-on-demand platforms that until now largely operated outside the UK’s broadcasting code, reports Sky News. Under the new framework, any streaming service with more than 500,000 UK users will be designated a “Tier 1” platform. That includes Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and catch-up services such as ITVX and Channel 4. These platforms will be required to comply with standards on harmful or offensive material, impartial news coverage, and accessibility requirements including subtitles.

Discord Distances Itself From Persona Age Verification After User Backlash
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Verge
In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord's head of product policy, Savannah Badalich, confirms the company "ran a limited test of Persona in the UK where age assurance had previously launched and that test has since concluded." After Discord announced plans to implement age verification globally starting next month, users across social media accused Discord of "lying" about how it plans on handling face scans and ID uploads. Much of the criticism was directed toward Discord's partnership with Persona, an age verification provider also used by Reddit and Roblox.

School district secretly promoted medicalized gender transitions for 8th graders
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
Refusing to notify parents and let them opt out their kids from health lesson, which celebrates girl who used chest binder and took testosterone to look like boy, likely violates recent Supreme Court precedent. As mainstream medical associations tiptoe away from so-called gender-affirming care for minors, in light of potentially crippling malpractice judgments, loss of federal funding and President Trump raising detransitioners' profiles, a suburban New York City school district is allegedly encouraging gender-confused tweens to start medical transitions. Westchester County's Ardsley Union Free School District defended an eighth-grade health lesson that promoted chest binders and testosterone for girls who are uncomfortable with their sex, with no parental notification or opportunity for parents to opt out their kids, according to emails a "concerned taxpayer" shared with parental rights group Defending Education.

Senegal PM proposes tougher anti-LGBT law, doubling prison terms
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: BBC News
[Ed: it is good to highlight the salutary difference in how the West treats gay rights and similar issues.] Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has introduced legislation that could double the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The proposal was sent to parliament on Tuesday after cabinet approval last week, after a wave of arrests over alleged same-sex relationships, already banned under Senegal law. Addressing lawmakers, Sonko said the bill would punish what it describes as "acts against nature" with prison sentences ranging from five to 10 years, compared with the current one- to five-year terms. "If an act is committed with a minor, it will attract the maximum penalty," he said. The bill has been criticised by rights advocates.

Another Migrant Sex Offender Granted Asylum In UK Despite Skipping Bail In EU
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Remix News
An Afghan man accused of rape in Austria jumped bail and fled to Britain, where he was granted asylum. An Afghan man accused of rape in Austria jumped bail and fled to Britain, where he was granted asylum and lived freely for over six years It is the second such case to be exposed this month after a similar incident involving a Syrian convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager in Germany, who failed to attend his probation hearings and illegally entered the U.K.

The Victims Who Fought Back
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: ProPublica
Second Chance at Freedom: The Oklahoma Survivors’ Act allows imprisoned victims of domestic violence to ask for a reduced sentence if they can show the abuse was a driving factor in their crime. Prosecutorial Resistance: Local DAs have raised concerns that the law encourages exaggerated or bad-faith claims and could allow anyone who has suffered abuse to seek a lesser punishment. Reform Meets Roadblocks: One domestic violence survivor — serving a life sentence for her involvement in her husband’s murder — walked free, but others face pushback from prosecutors.

'Patently absurd'
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
School district demands $1.2M to see contracts before voters consider budget. The taxpayer who asked for the information will have to pay over $440,000 up front just for the district to start compiling it. A Rhode Island taxpayer asked to see contracts between her local schools and the regional authority on matters such as information technology and records management ahead of a March vote on the next budget, an historically explosive subject. The Foster-Glocester Regional School District's response: It will cost $1.2 million and take more than 80,000 hours of labor to review and redact nearly 2.5 million emails.

Justice Department suit accuses UCLA of failing to protect Jewish employees
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CNN News
The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in California, is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign to punish top universities that it says have been soft on antisemitism. The suit accuses the University of California, Los Angeles of failing to discipline those who were involved in protests, including dozens who were arrested in 2024 for failing to leave a campus encampment.

Serial child molester could be released from Southern California prison
Topic: Children and Family
Source: KTLA
Funston was eligible for a parole suitability hearing under the Elderly Parole Program because he was not on death row nor was he sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Depending on an inmate’s sentence, their first Elderly Parole Program hearing is scheduled after they have been incarcerated at least 20 continuous years and reached the age of 50. Inmates are also eligible for the Elderly Parole Program if they were incarcerated for 25 continuous years and reached the age of 60. Sacramento Sheriff TORCHES Newsom’s “Elderly Parole” Scheme After Serial Child Rapist Set Free

SCOTUS Backs Texas Parents in Lawsuit Over Baby Food Ruling
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Courthouse News
...lets case proceed in state court. The Supreme Court has handed a Texas couple another shot at a lawsuit over baby food bought at Whole Foods that they say harmed their son, reports Courthouse News. In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the justices let stand a lower court decision that allows Sarah and Grant Palmquist to pursue claims against Whole Foods and baby food maker Hain Celestial Group in state court rather than federal court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Palmquists had properly chosen a state trial, adding that "plaintiffs are ordinarily allowed to select whatever forum they consider most advantageous."

FBI alarm grows about violent online ring targeting children
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNN News
...exclusive documents show. A concerned mother posted online an urgent plea for advice last year: Her teenage son returning from college overseas had been mysteriously detained at a US airport. As her post went viral, commenters suggested she inform Congress and contact civil rights groups. But federal law enforcement documents obtained by CNN suggest her son harbored dark secrets. On his phone, customs agents discovered messages encouraging extreme violence, rape, Nazism and self-harm. One photo showed a gun pointed at someone’s head. Another showed Adolf Hitler. Days later, customs officials found chats with the same man on the phones of three European women, discussing organizing bombings in US cities, the documents show.

Quebec minister backtracks on abortion rights in proposed constitution
Topic: Abortion
Source: CBC
In the face of ongoing opposition, Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette is backtracking on plans to enshrine the right to abortion in the proposed Quebec constitution. In a statement to Radio-Canada, the minister's office confirmed Jolin-Barrette intends to remove the article in question from the legislation during a detailed review of Bill 1. Several groups had raised concerns that such a provision could open the door to legal challenges from anti-abortion groups, given that this right to abortion is already protected by Supreme Court of Canada (SCOC) rulings.

Europe’s parliament agrees to a resolution declaring trans women are women.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Pink News
The resolution, adopted last week, made a host of recommendations for the EU to pursue at the 70th annual UN Commission on the Status of Women, which is set to take place next month. Among the recommendations was a proclamation emphasising the “importance of the full recognition of trans women as women, noting that their inclusion is essential for the effectiveness of any gender-equality and anti-violence policies”. Other proclamations referencing LGBTQ+ people included the need for a “comprehensive tool to monitor and counter democratic backsliding and backsliding in women’s rights”

The Valdo Calocane case confirms it: wokeness kills
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Author: by Brendan O’Neill
The elites’ narcissistic fear of being thought of as racist is causing untold harm to ordinary Brits. There’s one surefire way to know if your belief system is a bad one: it endangers life. If your ideology imperils other people, on the foul grounds that your virtue counts for more than their safety, then it is a morally unfit one. We can now say this, beyond a shadow of a doubt, about wokeness. It prizes its own preening credo more highly than it does the life and limb of everyday citizens. Just consider the grim case of Valdo Calocane.

Why Montgomery County is paying millions to parents
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Examiner
Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland has now spent millions of taxpayer dollars learning a lesson it refused to accept voluntarily: Parents have rights, and courts will enforce them. Last week, the Montgomery County Board of Education agreed to pay $1.5 million in damages and submit to court-enforced protections for parental rights following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The settlement requires the district to provide parents with advance notice when instructional materials addressing family life and human sexuality will be used and to allow families to opt their children out of that instruction. It also places the district under ongoing court supervision to ensure compliance. After years of resistance, the board is being required to do what it could have done from the beginning: respect the constitutional rights of the families it serves.

Gen Z 1st generation to score WORSE on tests than their parents
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
...after textbooks replaced with $30 BILLION in laptops. The United States, as it has spent $30 billion in order to switch from the use of textbooks to laptops and tablets in schools, has paid the heavy price of letting the next generation's mental capabilities slip. However, over 20 years later, the psychologists have determined that Gen Z is the first generation that is less cognitively capable than the generation that came before them, per Fortune. Gen Z is the first generation to score lower on standardized tests than previous generations, according to neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath.

How Unelected EU Officials Built a Transnational Speech Police
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Libertarian Institute
On December 5, 2025, the European Commission imposed a €120 million fine on X, formerly Twitter—its first enforcement action under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The stated violations had nothing to do with incitement, fraud, or child exploitation. The Commission objected to the design of X’s blue checkmark, the layout of its advertising repository, and its data-sharing arrangements with academic researchers (read the Commission’s decision here). In the bureaucratic vocabulary of Brussels, these constituted breaches of “transparency obligations.” In plainer language, the world’s most powerful unelected regulatory body had just demonstrated that it could extract nine-figure penalties from an American company for interface design choices that no European citizen was ever asked to vote on.

"Anathema In The University Mission": Bari Weiss Canceled At UCLA
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
"...believes Weiss has used the guise of free speech to attack people on the left whose opinions she does not agree with..." This week, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was supposed to give the UCLA Burkle Center’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial guest lecture on “The Future of Journalism.” It was a wonderful opportunity for students to hear from one of the impactful voices in the media. However, they will not be able to do so after a successful cancel campaign supported by faculty members.

Why Team USA Women’s Hockey State of the Union Invite Provided ‘Difficult’ Problem
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Yahoo Sports
Team USA women’s hockey turned down an invitation from the White House to attend the State of the Union address — but it turns out they didn’t have much choice. The team didn’t receive the invite until the night of Sunday, February 22, which made it “difficult to change their travel plans,” a source told the Associated Press. USA Hockey issued a statement on Monday, February 23, confirming that the team would not be in attendance at President Trump’s State of the Union in Washington, D.C. the following day.