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Headline Roundup

Is the Rise in Book Bans Justified?

From the Left
Attempts to ban books at public libraries surge at record levels
Axios
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
From the Center
Book bans jumped by 33 percent last year: report
The Hill
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
From the Right
American Library Association report on 'book bans' blasted by conservative scholar
Washington Examiner
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
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Biden Campaign Will Be 'More Aggressive' Regarding Potential 2024 Misinformation

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Appeals Court Rules Biden Admin Violated First Amendment, Narrows Prior Ruling From Lower Court

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Elon Musk Buys Twitter: Victory for Free Speech or Online Harassment?
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Freedom of Expression
Amnesty International
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Background
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Cato Institute
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Data
For many Americans, views of offensive speech aren’t necessarily clear-cut
Pew Research Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Data
56% of Americans oppose the right to sue social media companies for what users post
Pew Research Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Data
Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment
Pew Research Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Data
Americans divided on whether Trump should be permanently banned from social media
Pew Research Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Background
How Parler, a Chosen App of Trump Fans, Became a Test of Free Speech
New York Times (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Data
Republicans, Democrats at odds over social media companies banning Trump
Pew Research Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Background
Campus free speech: A cultural approach
American Enterprise Institute
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Background
We Can Uphold Free Speech and Hold President Trump Accountable
ACLU
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Data
Partisans in the U.S. increasingly divided on whether offensive content online is taken seriously enough
Pew Research Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Background
Free speech or censorship? Social media litigation is a hot legal battleground
American Bar Association
Political News Media Bias Rating: Not Rated
Background
The Ongoing Challenge to Define Free Speech
American Bar Association
Political News Media Bias Rating: Not Rated
Top Argument
Should the ACLU Defend Free Speech Rights of White Supremacists?
ProCon.org
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Mixed
Top Argument
Do Hate Crime Laws Often Violate the Right to Free Speech?
ProCon.org
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Mixed
Background
Actually, hate speech is protected speech
Chicago Tribune
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Background
Why America needs a hate speech law
Washington Post
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Background
“Hate Speech” Laws Undermine Free Speech and Equality
Cato Institute
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Background
Do University Regulations Against Offensive Speech Often Inhibit Freedom of Expression?
ProCon.org
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Mixed
Background
Speech on Campus
ACLU
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Background
The Growing Threat to Free Speech Online
David French
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
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Is Filtering Censorship? The Second Free Speech Tradition
Brookings Institution
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
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Online Censorship in the States
ACLU
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
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Regulating free speech on social media is dangerous and futile
Brookings Institution
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Background
Cancel Culture Suppresses Free Speech
Background
Free Speech? What’s Free Speech?
Cato Institute
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
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Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak
ACLU
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Background
Freedom of speech in the United States
Wikipedia
Political News Media Bias Rating: Not Rated
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ACLU Issues: Free Speech
ACLU
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Background
Big Tech Is Big Brother
Prager University
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Right
Background
When Colleges Confine Free Speech to a ‘Zone,’ It Isn’t Free
ACLU
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Background
Freedom of speech in the United States
Wikipedia
Political News Media Bias Rating: Not Rated
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What Does Free Speech Mean?
United States Courts
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Background
Freedom of speech
Wikipedia
Political News Media Bias Rating: Not Rated

Balanced News about Free Speech on AllSides from the Left, Center and Right

From the Left

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From the Right

News
Before anniversary of mass protests, Iran’s leader expresses no regrets and threatens opponents
NBC News (Online)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
China May Ban Clothes That Hurt People’s Feelings. People Are Outraged.
New York Times (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
In Trump cases, experts say defendant’s rhetoric will be hard to police
Washington Post
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Opinion
Why Trump’s Free-Speech Defense Is a ‘Red Herring’
New York Magazine
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Left
Analysis
There is no First Amendment right to overturn an election
Vox
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Left
News
Elon Musk Welcomes Child Sex Abuse Imagery Poster Back to Twitter
Vice
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Left
News
Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness
The Texas Tribune
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Analysis
Are Tech Companies Liable for Buffalo’s Racist Massacre? Families Say Yes.
New York Times (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
Texas professor suspended hours after criticizing lieutenant governor in lecture
The Guardian
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
Opinion
Five key takeaways from the Supreme Court’s anti-LGBTQ decision
LGBTQ Nation
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Left
News
Supreme Court limits LGBTQ protections with ruling in favor of Christian web designer
CNN (Online News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
Supreme Court clarifies when online harassment can be prosecuted
CNN (Online News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
Supreme Court says a conviction for online threats violated 1st Amendment
Washington Post
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
Supreme Court Rejects Free Speech Challenge to Immigration Law
New York Times (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
New video undercuts claim Twitter censored pro-Trump views before Jan. 6
Washington Post
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
News
Moms for Liberty read ‘porn’ hoping to ban books, as Seminole school board listens
Orlando Sentinel
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Israeli PM Netanyahu Urges Musk To Fight Anti-Semitism
International Business Times
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Federalist Society panelists endorse proposed law school accreditation rule on free speech
Reuters
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
New college free speech rankings released. Harvard comes in last.
Straight Arrow News
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Disney drops all but free speech claim in political retaliation suit against DeSantis
CNBC
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Tucker Carlson is 'Dead Man Walking', Putin Ally Warns
Newsweek
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Analysis
The Internet Speech Case That the Supreme Court Can’t Dodge
Wired
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Korans burnt in front of Egyptian, Turkish embassies in Denmark
Reuters
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
China suspends 2 online media outlets as censors tighten grip
South China Morning Post
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Judge Orders Biden Officials to Limit Contact With Social-Media Companies
Wall Street Journal (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Biden officials must limit contact with social media firms
BBC News
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Man denies making request cited in landmark Supreme Court LGBTQ case
The Hill
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Elon Musk Seeks Support Against Rules on Free Speech Online
Wired
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Free Speech Advocates Blast Elizabeth Gilbert For Pulling Book Set In Russia
Forbes
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Freedom of speech and LGBT rights: Americans’ views of issues in Supreme Court case
Pew Research Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
News
Jack Smith Is Trying to Rein in Trump Ahead of 2020 Election Interference Trial
Townhall
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Right
News
Justice Alito temporarily pauses order restricting Biden administration's social media contacts
Washington Examiner
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Opinion
Two-Thirds of College Students Think Shouting Down A Public Speaker Can Be Acceptable
Reason
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Opinion
The Washington Post Says Democracy Demands Less Freedom of Speech
Reason
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
News
Montana asks judge not to block state’s TikTok ban, says law doesn’t violate First Amendment
Washington Times
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
News
House Judiciary Subpoenas FBI's Wray, AG Garland
Newsmax (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Right
News
FBI Told Twitter Hunter Biden Laptop Was Real on Day It Was Censored
National Review (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Opinion
Speech We Loathe Is Speech We Must Defend
Bret Stephens
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Opinion
The Disinformation Industry’s Jig Is Up
Noah Rothman
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
News
‘I Guess Barbie Is Made in China’: Ted Cruz Blasts Hollywood for Catering to CCP in New Blockbuster
National Review (News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
News
Belarus minister responsible for illegally diverting Ryanair flight to arrest opposition journalist dies mysteriously aged 46
Daily Mail
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Right
News
US ambassador to Russia allowed to visit detained WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich for first time in months
Fox News (Online News)
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Right
Analysis
Federal Judge Blocks Florida's Anti-Drag Law
Reason
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Opinion
Firing a Professor for 'Left-Wing' Views Is Unconstitutional
Reason
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Analysis
YouTube Abandons Election Misinformation Policy That Censored Political Speech
Reason
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right

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