The Moscow Times headlines its post “Russian Foreign Ministry Slams U.S. Over Iran Protests,” but the statement from spokeswoman Maria Zakharova is more of a sneer than a slam. Zakharova invoked Occupy Wall Street and the Ferguson riots to insinuate that America has no standing to criticize how the Iranian regime handles protests.
Free speech remained in a perilous state in 2017, as Big Tech became increasingly comfortable with censorship, applying inscrutable rules through enigmatic algorithms that looked an awful lot like old-fashioned political bias to outside observers.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has had a busy first year as one of President Donald Trump’s earliest and most committed supporters, one who now leads one of the most powerful departments in the federal government.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Jameel Jaffer, the Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which has sued President Trump over him blocking people on Twitter, argued that the Trump administration
Wu Gan, a Chinese human rights activist who blogs under the pen name ‘Super Vulgar Butcher,’ was given an eight-year jail sentence for “subverting state power” on Tuesday.
Twitter’s Vice President of Public Policy and Communications recently stated in an interview that it was “no longer possible to stand up for all speech.”
In a powerful address to journalists over the weekend, Pope Francis defended the principle of freedom of the press, while calling on journalists to avoid the “sins” of fake news and sensationalism.
Students at Arkansas State University are suing over a controversial “free speech zone” policy that only allows them to exercise their First Amendment rights on certain parts of campus.
A government watchdog is expected to demand changes in the law meaning social media platforms can be harshly punished and sued if they fail to delete content considered hateful, extremist, or racist.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning at the age of 65. The cause of death has not been released.
Religious-liberty activists and conservative Christian groups are optimistic after oral arguments on Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving a Colorado Christian wedding cake baker that squarely pits constitutional rights of free speech and religious liberty against LGBT activists on the subject of same-sex marriage.
Anyone using social media to promote fake news in Ireland could be jailed for 5 years and handed a €10,000 euro fine, according to plans put forward by one of the country’s leading political parties.
The president of the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union released a statement this week that argued that the university’s recent debate on free speech has “caused harm” to students.
Anti-Islamisation campaigner Tommy Robinson has slammed British Prime Minister Theresa May for her attack on President Donald Trump after he retweeted a controversial anti-mass migration activist, saying her virtue signalling about the “far right” detracts from the issue of radical Islamic terrorism and Islamism.
Tufts University canceled a speech featuring former White House Communications Chief Anthony Scaramucci after he threatened to sue a student and the school newspaper for defamation.
A small group of left-wing campaigners are attempting to limit what newspapers report about immigration, Islam, and transgenderism, successfully “bullying” business into withdrawing ads from publications they don’t agree with.
Brave, the Internet browser from Brendan Eich — the creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO chased out of the company because of political wrongthink — has announced a new feature that users might use to combat YouTube’s growing censorship of independent channels in favor of corporate brands.
The Supreme Court added three political-speech cases on Monday to its oral argument docket this year, granting review in one involving pro-life pregnancy centers, another where a man was arrested while criticizing his local government for corruption at a public meeting, and a third where state law prohibited a man from wearing the Gadsden flag or a voter-ID button when he went to his polling place to vote.
A teacher has been suspended after allegations he referred to a pupil who was born female, but “self-identifies” as a boy, as a girl.
Americans are ambivalent about the importance of free speech on college campuses, a new survey published in the Washington Post this week revealed.
Jewish students at a leading London university have protested “anti-Semitic” and Hamas terror group-linked speakers on campus, invited to a Friends of Palestine event.
Duke University Professor Linsey Lebowitz Hughes has banned students involved in the school’s newspaper from enrolling in her economics classes, according to a report from Inside Higher Ed.
Columbia Law School professor Suzanne Goldberg has laid out three methods to help students ban “threatening” guest speakers.
A U.S. judge has blocked a decision by the Canadian Supreme Court that attempted to force Google to delete search results in every country around the world.
Two-thirds of Americans believe that colleges and universities aren’t doing enough to teach students the value of free speech, according to a new survey by the Cato Institute.
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested an American citizen for allegedly insulting dictator Robert Mugabe on Twitter, embassy officials have confirmed.
An opinion column published in the Wall Street Journal this week argues that universities that don’t uphold free expression principles should lose federal funding.
A California judge has tossed a state law that requires “pregnancy centers,” which exist to provide alternatives to abortion, to notify clients that the state offers free abortion and contraception services.
The University of Michigan has announced that 20 students will be offered free room and board in exchange for their progressive activism on campus.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions unapologetically praised constitutional conservatism in a speech at the Heritage Foundation on Thursday, extolling the Constitution’s separation of government powers, singling out religious liberty for special focus, and sharply criticizing federal judges who refuse to abide by their limited role in the American Republic.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) said that President Donald Trump has “emboldened “ hate groups and blamed him for violence on college campuses.
Vassar College students “were whipped into a frenzy” ahead of a speech given on campus this week by Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson on the topic of hate speech on college campuses.
The University of California, once the home of the Free Speech Movement, announced Thursday that it will launch the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement to study First Amendment issues and educate students about them.
During a congressional hearing on the state of free speech on college campuses held on Thursday, Middlebury professor Allison Stanger claimed that faculty at the college encouraged students to derail a February speaking event with Charles Murray.
American Atheists joined forces with a Texas high school student and are suing the school district and her teachers. The high schooler claims she was harassed because she would not say the Pledge of Allegiance. The atheists and the girl’s lawyer assert that school officials have infringed upon her constitutional rights.
Official guidelines insist a hate crime must be driven by “hostility”, but when contacted, many UK forces are unable to give a definition of what they mean by “hostility” in the context of hate crimes.
The government should not “criminalise thought”, the UK’s terror watchdog has said, after ministers revealed new laws criminalising viewing “extreme” online material following a wave of Islamist attacks.
But now they fear their worst nightmares are about to come true, with Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the panel to rule on Janus v. AFSCME, an Illinois case that involves the same fight over free speech rights and collective bargaining.
On Friday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” University of California President and former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano argued students should be better educated about the First Amendment and the fact that restricting speech is dangerous. Napolitano said, “I think that
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