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Sep 06 2022
Perspectives Blog
When Biden Gives the Wrong Speech
From the CenterLast Thursday night, Joe Biden went to Philadelphia and delivered two speeches. That was one too many.
The White House advertised Biden’s address to the nation as a warning about the threat faced by our democracy. The implication was that the president would rise above partisanship to talk about the more fundamental danger posed by the deep divisions and hyper-
Dan SchnurOct 30 2020
Opinion
My Resignation From The Intercept
Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.
The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all
Glenn GreenwaldOct 16 2020
News
Senate to Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to issue a subpoena on Tuesday to Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey after the social-media company blocked a pair of New York Post articles that made new allegations about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which his campaign has denied.
The subpoena would require the Twitter executive to testify on Oct. 23 before the committee,
Wall Street Journal (News)Think Tank / Policy Group
Student Press Law Center
Since 1974, the Student Press Law Center is the nation's only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment, and supporting the student news media to cover important issues free from censorship.
Jan 15 2020
News
Facebook took down posts regarded as too sympathetic to Soleimani. Free speech advocates must fight back
Instagram, and its parent company Facebook, took down posts regarded as too sympathetic to Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated January 3 in a controversial US airstrike. The news website Coda (1/10/20) was credited with breaking the news, and Newsweek (1/10/20) also reported that: Iranian journalists have reported the censorship of their Instagram accounts. Posts about
AlterNetJun 18 2020
News
The Internet’s Most Censored Space
For the free-speech absolutists out there, let me point you to a corner of the digital world that embraces its utter lack of free expression: Apple’s app stores.
Apple alone decides what apps you can download on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. The company reviews every line of software code and is happy to block any app that it believes promotes harmful behavior, is in poor taste, enables
New York Times (News)Apr 24 2021
Fact Check
Could the mRNA Vaccines Permanently Alter DNA?
An article from The Defender, a news website that describes itself as “an online news site to evade official censorship, to report fact-based news and sponsor the kind of honest debate that terrifies the new generation of corporate and government commissars,” claims that scientific research suggests that coronavirus mRNA vaccines might “permanently alter DNA.”
The Defender piece cites
The DispatchDec 04 2014
News
Why journalists should be free speech partisans
Following on the New York Times's decision to continue its critical coverage of China, despite the Chinese government's retaliation against it, Dan Gillmor calls on journalists and news organizations to abandon the pretense of "neutrality" and take a partisan stand for free speech in questions of censorship, surveillance, net neutrality, copyright takedown, and other core issues of speech in
Boing BoingNov 25 2020
News
Give Everyone a Barcode? China Trying to Use COVID Fears to Launch Global Tracking System for Humans
China's communist leader Xi Jinping is calling for countries across the world to accept a global COVID-19 tracking system that uses QR codes in an attempt to expedite international travel.
Xi proposed the concept during a virtual G20 leaders' meeting on Saturday, noting that this "global mechanism" uses an electronic barcode that would help determine a traveler's health status,
CBNSep 16 2019
Opinion
The left-wing threat to campus free speech is abating. The right-wing threat is not.
When it comes to free speech on American campuses, there seems to be a law of conservation at work: Just when the internal threat of censorship from left-wing campus activists is abating, the external threat from right-wing lawmakers is rising. But given that the new threat relies not on the decibel level of immature 18-somethings but the state power of motivated adults, it may be much harder
Guest Writer - Right