It's Friday, September 5th, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

In the United States House of Representatives just days ago, in the House Judiciary Committee,

there was a hearing on the effect of online censorship

and other countries, particularly in the United Kingdom, that's Britain and in Europe,

and the effect of that censorship in the United States. One of the big issues going on here

is that we are looking at two different cultures when it comes to the definition of free speech.

And at this point, the cultures are increasingly on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

And so for a matter of years now, we have seen speech curtailed, particularly in many European

nations, and even more recently now in the United Kingdom.

And when you think of a nation like Britain, like Kingdom. And when you think of a nation like

Britain, like the United Kingdom, you think of a nation very much analogous to ours. We are a part of

the Anglosphere, the English-speaking world. We share a common heritage in common law and also

in constitutionalism. But when you compare the United Kingdom and the United States

on the question of the Constitution,

there is a huge difference. That huge difference is that the American Constitution is a text.

It is a written document. It's a written document that was composed by the founders of this nation

and was ratified by the states in order to become

the Constitution of the United States of America. Now, of course, this is frontline news just

about every week in the United States because in the great cultural conflict right now in our

society, one of the central issues is how you interpret the Constitution.

Now, that most often comes up when the Supreme Court of the United States, which was

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