{"id":11504,"date":"2026-11-14T02:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T07:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2026-11-14T02:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T07:11:54","slug":"free-speech-is-dying-in-europe-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11504","title":{"rendered":"FREE SPEECH IS DYING IN EUROPE (and Canada)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Britain revoked Eva Vlaardingerbroek&#8217;s travel permit. The Home Office said her presence was &#8220;not conducive to the public good.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She applied for a visa in October to speak at a Restore Britain event. It wasn&#8217;t processed in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France placed Michel Houellebecq, its most famous living novelist, under formal investigation over a magazine interview he gave in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither of them hurt anyone. Neither has been convicted of anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were punished for what they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eva-Vlaardingerbroek-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eva-Vlaardingerbroek-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eva-Vlaardingerbroek-22.jpg 512w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eva-Vlaardingerbroek-22-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain revoked Eva Vlaardingerbroek&#8217;s travel permit. The Home Office said her presence was &#8220;not conducive to the public good.&#8221; She applied for a visa in October to speak at a Restore Britain event. It wasn&#8217;t processed in time. France placed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5333,48,34,6464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11506,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions\/11506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}