From Reclaim the Net
Australia’s chief censor and eCommissioner Julie Inman Grant had better get a wriggle on if she wants to sue Facebook, Instagram or any other platform for any reason.
New Hampshire State Rep. Calvin Beaulier has submitted a legislative proposal that would prevent the state’s courts, agencies and personnel from being used by foreign censorship authorities to go after speech that is protected in the US.
The effort is one of several around the country, a growing movement, and is based on model legislation called the GRANITE Act. The New Hampshire proposal, which has not yet been published, was filed as a Legislative Service Request (LSR) by Beaulier on September 1.
LSRs are used to prepare a bill or resolution before the legislative session begins. The New Hampshire General Court’s public list of LSRs shows the proposal as a House bill, with Beaulier as the prime sponsor, and describes it as prohibiting the recognition, enforcement, or cooperation with any foreign judgment, order, or demand that seeks to penalize constitutionally protected speech.
Beaulier calls it the New Hampshire GRANITE Act ( Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny and Extortion Act). “Foreign governments keep trying to export their censorship laws and intimidate us for speaking freely,” he said in a video announcing the filing.
“The New Hampshire GRANITE Act puts a stop to that. Our courts will not recognize any unconstitutional foreign gag orders or fines. Our state agencies will not cooperate or assist with any attempts to enforce them.”
He concluded: “With the New Hampshire GRANITE Act, New Hampshire will be the world’s granite fortress of free speech.”
The model for this legislation is championed and co-written by American attorney Preston Byrne, who said that Beaulier’s bill follows the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) national model, and that he had been involved in drafting an earlier New Hampshire GRANITE Act that was circulated to representatives in October 2025.
Byrne also noted that the ALEC model was finalized on August 12, after being introduced as model policy on July 24. The model defines a foreign censorship law as one that restricts, penalizes, or compels disclosure about speech, expression, association, or content protected by the US First Amendment and the relevant state constitution.
If the New Hampshire bill follows the ALEC model, no state court will be allowed to recognize, enforce, or execute a foreign judgment, fine, order, or demand based “wholly or partly” on such a law. Furthermore, state agencies, officials, and employees would be prohibited from cooperating with or supporting enforcement of such foreign laws, including through service of process, information sharing, or other assistance.
The model bill states that it is defensive in nature and consistent with the federal SPEECH Act, which has a similar goal of preventing foreign defamation judgments from being recognized or enforced in the US.
In other words, the proposed legislation does not have the power to stop a foreign regulator from taking action against a company’s assets, staff or operations abroad – but it would prevent that regulator from using the machinery of the state of New Hampshire to enforce its censorship laws.
A federal GRANITE Act, H.R. 10174, was introduced in the US House of Representatives by Ohio Rep. Michael Rulli on August 27, and referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Rulli’s bill would prevent US courts from recognizing or enforcing foreign censorship judgments, fines, orders, and demands, and allow a US person targeted by such a demand to seek a declaration that it is unenforceable in the US.
According to Rulli, “My bill makes clear that if a foreign government tries to punish an American for speech protected by the First Amendment, that judgment is dead on arrival in our courts.”
The flurry of legislative activity around the country – including in New Hampshire, Wyoming, and West Virginia – is a reaction to attempts by foreign online-safety and censorship regulators to go after US-based speakers and platforms. The New Hampshire legislative session begins on January 6, 2027 so we’ll be looking out for it.
First there was free speech, then there was ‘constitutionally’ IMPLIED free speech and now there is eKaren approved free speech which is too difficult for most people to fight against in the courts. The process of enforcing our rights is the punishment itself, never mind any slap on the wrists or a ‘criminal’ conviction.
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But wait! There’s more…. eKaren now wants us to punish ourselves and slap ourselves on the wrists so we won’t feel like she’s our keeper. Self regulation, the ultimate manipulation!
They can still act against their assets in Australia. What’s needed is an extra clause to say that any judgement against say Australian assets will be deducted from Australian government assets in the USA.
Freedom of speech laws censoring the talkative e-Karen.
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A schickel switch to escape the claw ride…nice.
Get’s weirder
Look up CL1 computer Singapore, works using cultivated human brain cells growing on a chip.
Maybe they will be able to make an Orange Pongy Wong in 2 years for the rest of us
Are they going to throw e-Safety Karen in the slammer, or just refuse to pay. [ e-Karen is from NY ]
Asking the bot, the e-Karen gets half a million $ each year and the entire dept of e-Safely gets about $60 million per year. So far it is all wasted as I hear the feminists complaining and vilifying all men more and more blaming them for everything except washing machines, power steering, jet travel and smart phones. It seems Rockerfellas black ops dept has come up with a new word for them, “manosphere”, this is a place where everything bad comes from. Now they are parroting manosphere instead of last weeks word “resilience”, that is so August and now we’re September. I guess it’s Klaus Swab’s turn to dream up the Global parrot call for October. Have the feminists never heard the phrase “be careful what you with for”, the worse they get the more respect they lose, they are down to about zero already and dragging the normal women down with them. Personally if I see one I make sure I have an escape. e-Safety Karen is someone we really don’t need at all, if mentally incompetent Elbow told the smartphone companies to make a special kids’ phone, but that’s not the agenda is it.
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