Free Speech
Caught in the Net: The Impact of “Extremist” Speech Regulations on Human Rights Content
In The War On Free Speech, Assange Says: “Everyone Else Must Take My Place”
By Mac Slavo WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s health is deteriorating in a British prison, but the journalist was able to get a letter out to…
Detention of Gaspard Glanz is a Sign of France’s Increasingly Authoritarian Treatment of Journalists
By Global Voices On 20 April 2019, video journalist Gaspard Glanz was arrested while filming a demonstration in Paris’ Place de la République. Gaspard runs…
Journalist Killings, Arrests and Assaults Climb Worldwide as Authoritarianism Spreads
By Randy Covington, University of South Carolina Myanmar, nudged by the conscience of the world, recently released two Reuters journalists imprisoned for more than 500…
Papua New Guinea PM Pushes Proposal for Social Media Regulation, Citing Need to Stop “Fake News”’
By Mong Palatino The Papua New Guinea government has set its sights on regulating social media in order to combat the spread of online hoaxes…
Reddit Commenter’s Fight for Anonymity Is a Win for Free Speech and Fair Use
By Alex Moss A fight over unmasking an anonymous Reddit commenter has turned into a significant win for online speech and fair use. A federal…
Five Years in Prison for Offending Someone Online (And Other News From The Twilight Zone)
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Let the weekly absurdity begin! New SAT scoring will combat Asian privilege The infamous SAT has been used since 1926…
Canada Joins the Authoritarian Censorship Agenda
By Kurt Nimmo Here’s how the Canadians will deal with citizen journalism and narrative debunking—they’ll force the taxpayers to subsidize corporate news rackets. “Federal agencies…
Facebook Posts Trigger More Arrests in Bangladesh, Worrying Netizens
By Rezwan Two people were arrested on May 14 and 15, for comments they had posted on Facebook. The arrests have sparked indignation and concern…
Singapore Parliament Approves “Anti-fake News” Law, Raising Concerns About Free Speech
By Mong Palatino Singapore’s parliament approved the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) on May 8, 2019. Commonly known as the anti-fake news…
Freedom Of Speech Is About More Than The First Amendment
Op-Ed by Gary Chartier Facebook’s recent bans on controversial figures including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Infowars host Alex Jones have evoked strikingly…
Offended By What Someone Said? Now You Can Report Them To Law Enforcement
By MassPrivateI Soon free speech will be a thing of the past in paranoid America. DIGIT Lab’s “Hate Incident Reporting” app promises to turn complete strangers into…
Facebook to Ban Users Who Share Infowars Content Unless It Is “Explicitly Condemning” It
By Matt Agorist In one of the most disturbing moves by Facebook we’ve ever seen, the platform banned Alex Jones and other controversial U.S. political…