Just in these hours the agencies beat the news of an Irish teacher arrested for rejecting gender theory. In Germany, two youtubers risk hefty fines for calling individuals by their natural pronouns instead of those desired by them.

In Brazil, X is shut down by a judge's order, while the platform was repeatedly threatened by European authorities if it continued not to censor content unwelcome in Brussels.

In France, the founder of Telegram was arrested. The entire EU is under the sword of Damocles of the DSA, a potentially limitless measure in crushing citizens' freedom of expression.

Kamala Harris, during her election rallies, announced that if she were confirmed to the White House as president she would usher in a season of social media control and censorship.

These few news stories - just a handful - paint a more than troubling picture. Freedom of expression and freedom of thought itself are under attack throughout the Western world.

This is why Centro Studi Machiavelli has decided to join the #iSpeak campaign, conceived by journalist and radio host Claudio Talanti together with our Emanuele Mastrangelo.

The iSpeak initiative aims to raise awareness of threats to freedom of thought by creating citizen networks and monitoring attacks on this right throughout the West. It proposes to create an opinion platform calling on policymakers to reinforce the right to the inviolability of one's freedom of expression, to reclaim the supremacy of national constitutions over any international norms or pressures that aim to restrict individual rights of thought and expression, and to proclaim the rejection of any “state truth” or any other public or private entity that can arrogate to itself the power to determine what is true or false and what can be said or not sai

Centro Studi Machiavelli has always been committed to this front. That is why in the coming months we will participate in and initiate a debate on the best ways to achieve the goal of “armoring” freedom of speech and thought in Italy, thus giving realization to Articles 3 and 21 of the Constitution, which - respectively - prohibit discrimination of citizens on the basis of opinions expressed and guarantee the right to freedom of expression and the press without censorship.

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Editor of the Centro Studi Machiavelli “Belfablog,” Emanuele Mastrangelo is editor-in-chief of “CulturaIdentità” and has been editor-in-chief of “Storia in Rete” since 2006. A military-historical cartographer, he is the author of several books (with Enrico Petrucci, Iconoclastia. La pazzia contagiosa della cancel culture che sta distruggendo la nostra storia e Wikipedia. L'enciclopedia libera e l'egemonia dell'informazione).