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…
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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…
CBS News, NYT Reporter Suggest U.S. Scrap Free Speech In Favor Of New Zealand-Style Censorship
By Chris Menahan CBS News released a propaganda segment on Monday featuring New York Times tech reporter Cecilia Kang where they suggested the US government…
“Landmark” Victory for First Amendment as Court Strikes Down Texas Anti-BDS Law
By Jake Johnson (CD) — In a decision hailed as a “landmark” victory for the First Amendment, a federal judge on Thursday struck down a Texas law requiring…
Netizen Report: If Protecting Your Privacy is “Part of a Conspiracy,” Then We’re All in Big Trouble
By Netizen Report Team The Advox Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in technology and human rights around the…
South Dakota Sued Over New Laws Aimed at Preventing Another Standing Rock
By Derrick Broze Civil liberties organizations and activists are pushing back against new laws which criminalize protests and free speech related to pipeline projects. In…
“Blatant Violation of the First Amendment”: Public Citizen Sues Betsy DeVos for Censoring Its Website
By Jake Johnson (CD) – Public Citizen sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday for allegedly blocking access to the consumer group’s website on her department’s guest Wi-Fi and…
Orwellian Hate Crime Database to Be Set Up For Thought Criminals in Michigan
Op-Ed by Joe Wright Only in a world where the novel 1984 has become the evening news can we get a state’s Attorney General working…
The Assault on Campus Free Speech Doesn’t Just Come from Liberals
By Elias Atienza The free speech wars flared up again in March when President Donald Trump signed an executive order tying federal research funding to…
How Universal Basic Income Could Be Used to Suppress Free Speech
By Nathan A. Kreider Fears of job loss through automation have fueled advocacy for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in recent years. Now that presidential…
YouTube Continues To Censor Alex Jones; Bans Secondary Channel Over NZ Massacre Opinions
By Mac Slavo The censorship seemed to have cooled off, but only for a moment. Now, YouTube has taken it upon itself to ban Alex…