FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 30, 2026 — NASHVILLE, Tenn. —The Future of Free Speech has submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission, warning that a proposed policy statement on “suppression of accuracy in AI systems” would violate the First Amendment. The filing responds to an FTC notice seeking public comment on whether prohibitions on deceptive […]
By Jacob Mchangama Earlier this month, Amnesty International asked Britain’s charity regulator to review the status of 117 organizations whose views on sex and abortion it dislikes. It received the public thrashing it deserved. But the threatened libel campaign now being bankrolled against it risks converting a victory for counter-speech into a cautionary tale—one in […]
By Natalie Alkiviadou On 8 July 2026, the European Parliament adopted a Resolution on the Impact of the 1974 Turkish Invasion on Cypriot Women and Girls and the Crimes Committed by Turkish Forces and Consequences on Gender Equality. The Resolution acknowledges that Cypriot women’s experiences of violence during 1974 are “often being excluded from official historical, […]
A new policy paper from the UK-based Prosperity Institute, “Reversing Britain’s Free Speech Recession,” cites The Future of Free Speech’s Executive Director Jacob Mchangama on the European Court of Human Rights’ record. In the paper, barrister Jon Holbrook traces the decline of free expression in Britain to decades of speech-restrictive legislation and proposes a draft […]
By Caitlin Babcock On Monday night, the House of Representatives passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act on a bipartisan basis, 267-117. The sweeping children’s safety package combines text from over a dozen other bills. Its provisions, among others, include blocking platforms from using children’s personal data for targeted ads and requiring AI […]
By Jenna Monnin The FCC is reviewing whether “The View” qualifies for the equal-time exemption for its political interviews. News programs are exempt from federal law that requires equal time for political candidates’ viewpoints, and ABC says that its show meets the requirements as a “bona fide news interview program.” The comments, by and large, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2026 — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Future of Free Speech, joined by the ACLU, National Coalition Against Censorship, and the Center for Democracy & Technology, has submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to reaffirm that The View qualifies as a bona fide news interview program under […]
By Philipp Fess Saxony’s Justice Minister Constanze Geiert is calling for an end to insulting politicians. She argues that protecting Chancellor Merz is hardly justifiable to the public. The law against “insulting a monarch” is once again under scrutiny. Telepolis had already reported on the visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Irene Khan in […]
By: Jacob Mchangama At this year’s Munich Security Conference, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed Europe’s “long tradition in freedom of speech.” Then she drew a redline. “We are very clear with digital sovereignty . . . that what is forbidden offline is forbidden online,” she added. Von der Leyen’s maxim would have […]
By Jacob Mchangama Irakli Miladze, a food courier in Tbilisi, spent long shifts dodging not only the weather, but also fines for using bus lanes. They were the same bus lanes that government officials sped down in their fancy vehicles with impunity. In late 2022, Miladze did what citizens in a modern democracy are supposed […]