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Apr 18 2024
Opinion
Free Speech Isn’t a Barrier to Regulating Social Media. Profits Are.
You can’t use a mega-sound system to hold a political rally in front of a hospital in the middle of the night. You can’t pack a theater so full of people that no one can reach the fire exits without being trampled. In the physical world, these kinds of noise control and fire safety regulations uneventfully coexist with our First Amendment free speech and free assembly rights. They’re accepted
PoliticoApr 13 2024
News
Pittsburgh Police announce arrest of man for allegedly posting hate symbol on synagogue
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Pittsburgh Police have announced an arrest after investigating a possible hate symbol being inscribed on a local synagogue. According to police, on April 8, they received an email from the Shaare Torah Synagogue in Squirrel Hill with several pictures of a man inscribing a possible hate symbol on the doors of the synagogue. Originally, the symbol was reported as a Star of
CBS News (Online)Feb 10 2015
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The French Debate: Free Speech Versus Hate Speech
When terrorists attacked a satirical magazine in Paris last month, killing eight journalists, millions took to the streets in support of free speech. They waved pencils and carried signs in solidarity with the magazine Charlie Hebdo.
NPR (Online News)Nov 25 2023
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Irish Prime Minister Blasted for Pushing 'Hate Speech' Law Following Dublin Riot
Campaigner accused Mr. Varadkar of "citing the actions of a few to erode the rights of all" after the taoiseach vowed to pass controversial bill. Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has come under fire from free speech advocates after he pushed for new laws following a riot in Dublin that was triggered by a stabbing attack from an alleged immigrant. The prime minister vowed to expedite laws to
The Epoch TimesNov 20 2023
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Madison Police condemn hate speech following neo-Nazi group march downtown
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The Madison Police Department is denouncing hate speech after a neo-Nazi group marched around downtown over the weekend. About 20 people carrying Nazi flags walked from noon to about 2 p.m., going up State Street to the Capitol and then to James Madison Park, according to an MPD report. MPD Public Information Officer Stephanie Fryer said additional staff were already
NBC 15 WMTVMar 31 2024
News
How Supplements Supercharged Alex Jones’s Hateful Conspiracies
There is a scene in Dan Reed’s new documentary about Alex Jones that borders on the tragicomic. It arrives roughly midway through The Truth vs. Alex Jones, a chronicle of two lawsuits brought against Jones by the parents of children murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of 2012, filed after years of abuse from followers of Jones’s conspiracy theory that the massacre was a “hoax
New RepublicApr 15 2024
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California valedictorian will no longer give graduation speech over 'alarming' discussion
The University of Southern California said its valedictorian will no longer deliver a graduation speech this year, citing "substantial risks relating to security" over social media chatter surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict. The Los Angeles school revealed that Asna Tabassum, a fourth-year student from Chino Hills, California, was selected as the valedictorian and would give a speech
"USA Today" ContributorApr 18 2024
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A commencement speech unspoken: USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum earned the right to speak
New York Daily NewsApr 14 2024
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Salman Rushdie decries free speech "censorship" pushes by progressives and conservatives
Salman Rushdie said the U.S. faces a "bad moment" for free speech, with censorship pushes coming from the left and right of politics. The big picture: In his first major TV interview since the stabbing onstage in New York that nearly killed him, the British-American author told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview airing Sunday "there seems to be a kind of growing orthodoxy, particularly amongst
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