The High Cost of Free Speech
Reading Time: 14 minutes A look at free speech, hate speech, campus speech, and post-truth speech.
Who Should Censor Online Speech?
Reading Time: 18 minutes David Kaye, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, distils the global challenges of our most consequential free-speech issue.
What If the US, Like Germany, Bans Hate Speech in the Future?
Reading Time: 14 minutes A provocative essay by a noted civil rights attorney on the dangers of censorship, and why he believes that “the only defense against a bad guy’s hate speech is a good guy’s counter-speech.” OPINION
The Free Speech Wars: Has the First Amendment Outlived Its Usefulness?
Reading Time: 15 minutes Is the norm of almost absolute free speech in the US going to survive? And should it?
The Most Un-American Thing in the Kaepernick Saga
Reading Time: 2 minutes “America, love it or leave it” is a common mantra of those resisting social change. But where would the country be without those who challenge the status quo?
UPDATE: In Case You Missed It: Barrett Brown Strikes Plea Deal with the Feds
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Hacktivist journo” Barrett Brown pleaded guilty to reduced charges that drastically lower his potential prison exposure. Here’s what happened in case you missed it.
Better Late than Never
Reading Time: < 1 minute An Alabama journalist and blogger has been in jail for months. Mainstream media is only now beginning to notice.
Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet
Reading Time: 9 minutes Carmen Ortiz has garnered much attention following the suicide of information activist Aaron Swartz, considering her office threw the book at him for a very minor offense. But what other skeletons hang in her closet, and what does it tell us about federal prosecutions these days?
ClassicWHO: US Government on Rights of Foreigners…Vs. Americans
Reading Time: < 1 minute Video powerfully contrasts US government rhetoric about “the people” in other countries and their right to peacefully protest, and the crackdown on similar protest at home.
WHOFACTCHECK: New Bill a Protest Clampdown?
Reading Time: 7 minutes HR 347 is either a reasonable effort to protect the president or it’s an effort to sack the constitution. Or maybe it’s neither. Whatever it is, it deserves further study.