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Free Speech Leads to Tolerance and Prosperity
Free Speech Leads to Tolerance and Prosperity The protection of free speech, including and especially offensive speech, is vitally important to a country’s well-being. J.S. Mill was an early advocate for our current view of free speech. He wrote, “If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary […]
The First Amendment is Under Serious Assault in Order to Stifle Anti-Israel Boycotts
The First Amendment is Under Serious Assault in Order to Stifle Anti-Israel Boycotts Assaults on freedom speech can be found in many aspects of American life these days, but one specific area that isn’t getting the attention it deserves relates to boycotts against Israel. Increasingly, we’re seeing various regional governments requiring citizens to agree to […]
Survey Find Americans’ Views on Free Speech is a Whole Bunch of Crazy
Survey Find Americans’ Views on Free Speech is a Whole Bunch of Crazy The biggest thing this survey proves is that Orwellian double-speak is working. If you are unfamiliar, doublespeak is a term from the novel 1984. It is speech intentionally meant to confuse, or obscure reality. What does free speech mean? What is hate speech? […]
The Death Of Free Speech Is Imminent: Government Begins Censorship Of Media Through Disingenuous Means
The Death Of Free Speech Is Imminent: Government Begins Censorship Of Media Through Disingenuous Means The death of free speech is imminent. Anyone with access to a computer and the internet can see that the United States mainstream media is nothing more than a propaganda machine designed to brainwash the masses into a lemming-like agreement […]
The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of “Free Speech”
The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of “Free Speech” Photo by Charlie Nguyen | CC BY 2.0 It has recently come to my attention that new Chancellor Carol Christ at the University of California, Berkeley, my alma mater, has unveiled ambitious plans for a “Free Speech Year” — a magnanimous gesture toward the Free Speech Movement […]
How Social Media Stifles Free Speech
How Social Media Stifles Free Speech Even more problematic is that those platforms are free to delete the pages and posts of users they deem to have violated whatever they decide are “community standards.” This includes judging content supportive of, for example, restricting migration in Europe. Facebook, for example, also often permits real hate speech […]
Here’s How Facebook Decides What You Can And Can’t See
Here’s How Facebook Decides What You Can And Can’t See One of Facebook’s overwhelmed content moderators – who reportedly sometimes have just 10 seconds to decide whether or not a piece of content is appropriate for the site’s immense user base or not – appears to have leaked a slideshow outlining the company’s complex rules […]
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher, whose principle is aligned with the U.S. Constitution, is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy. The Justice Department in the […]
European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech
European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech The rule strikes at the very center of free speech, namely that of elected politicians, which the European Court of Human Rights has deemed in its practice to be specially protected. Members of the European Parliament are people who have been elected to make the voices of their […]
Executive Director of the Kansas City Library System Issues Dire Free Speech Warning
Executive Director of the Kansas City Library System Issues Dire Free Speech Warning The following story hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Back in May, a man was arrested by a private security guard and an off-duty police officer after asking pointed questions to American diplomat and author Dennis Ross during a library discussion. When […]
New York State Senator Introduces Unconstitutional, Anti-Free Speech Legislation
New York State Senator Introduces Unconstitutional, Anti-Free Speech Legislation Michael Krieger | Posted Friday Jun 17, 2016 at 11:57 am Perhaps the greatest irony of this past year has been the mind numbing and irrational anti-free speech wave that swept across facets of so-called “liberal” America. This regressive movement was most readily apparent on college campuses, where hordes of sheltered and […]
UN Plots War On Free Speech To Stop “Extremism” Online
UN Plots War On Free Speech To Stop “Extremism” Online The United Nations Security Council wants a global “framework” for censoring the Internet, as well as for using government propaganda to “counter” what its apparatchiks call “online propaganda,” “hateful ideologies,” and “digital terrorism.” To that end, the UN Security Council this week ordered the UN […]
The Death of Free Speech: The West Veils Itself
The Death of Free Speech: The West Veils Itself The West has capitulated on freedom of expression. Nobody in the West launched the motto “Je Suis Avijit Roy,” the name of the first of the several bloggers butchered, flogged or jailed last year for criticizing Islam. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, sided with the Turks. She […]
Germany Could Charge Comic for Insulting Turkey’s President
Germany Could Charge Comic for Insulting Turkey’s President AMERICANS WONDERING WHAT life might be like in the near future — after a President Donald Trump acts on his promise to “open up our libels laws,” so that politicians with easily bruised egos can sue reporters or commentators for hurting their feelings — should pay attention to what is […]
