Human Rights Centre Blog: Censorship in Colour: Why Artistic Freedom Is a Bedrock Principle

Posted on by Natalie Alkiviadou in Culture, Global Free Speech, News, Our Perspectives

By Dr. Natalie Alkiviadou and Katia Pau Recent controversies in Bangkok, Cyprus, and the United Kingdom demonstrate that disputes surrounding artistic expression remain deeply embedded in contemporary political, religious, and social life. In Bangkok, criticism and public backlash emerged following the display of artworks considered offensive to religious and cultural sensibilities, triggering debates about the limits of artistic freedom […]

EFF: Speaking Freely: Jacob Mchangama

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Culture, Digital Regulation, First Amendment, Free Speech Book, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, In the news, News

Interviewer: Jillian York Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, human rights advocate, and public commentator. He is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, a nonpartisan think tank located at Vanderbilt University. His new book with Jeff Kosseff, The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy’s Most Essential […]

International Politics and Society Journal: Brave New Restrictions

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Culture, Disinformation, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, News, Our Perspectives

Has Europe’s crackdown on free speech become a bigger threat to democracy than ‘the extremists’ it seeks to contain? By Jacob Mchangama On the morning of November 26, three armed police officers showed up at the Berlin apartment of American playwright C.J. Hopkins. They presented a warrant, seized his computer, and questioned both him and […]

Quillette: The New Speech Wars

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Culture, Featured News, First Amendment, Global Free Speech, In the news, News

By Cathy Young During the free-speech skirmishes of the last decade, the battle lines were often drawn in a way that placed heterodox liberals and centrists on the same side as conservatives in opposing censorious progressivism. But those lines have been redrawn in recent months, after the Trump administration began aggressively targeting disfavoured expression, from […]

Salon: Efforts to Avenge Charlie Kirk’s Death Have Fallen Apart Everywhere — Except Where It Counts

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Culture, In the news, News

By Russell Payne Organized right-wing doxxing efforts have evaporated in the month since the killing of Charlie Kirk, the former head of Turning Point USA, leaving questions about where all the data went. In the six weeks since Kirk’s death, most of the right-wing efforts to avenge his death — except the ones in the […]

Foreign Affairs: Who Has Free Speech? The Global Fight Over A Powerful Idea

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Culture, Featured News, First Amendment, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, News, Our Perspectives

By Jacob Mchangama  [ . . . ] The Trump administration has moved with startling speed from trumpeting free speech to seeking to criminalize it. At first glance, that might seem to vindicate the arguments in the historian Fara Dabhoiwala’s new book, What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea. Dabhoiwala believes that […]

Broadband Breakfast: Legal Experts Warn FCC’s Brendan Carr Edging Toward ‘Coercion’

Posted on by Ashkhen Kazaryan in Culture, Digital Regulation, First Amendment, In the news, News, Press Freedom

Legal scholars and free speech advocates warned Wednesday that Federal Communications Commission Chairman BrendanCarr ’s increasingly vocal interventions in broadcast content decisions were edging toward coercion. [ . . . ] Ashkhen Kazaryan, senior legal fellow for the Future of Free Speech, cautioned that “jawboning,” or political pressure on media, was not confined to one […]

USA Today: Free Speech Is Facing Threats in The US and Beyond. Here Are The Pressure Points

Posted on by Justin Hayes in Culture, Featured News, First Amendment, Global Free Speech, In the news, News

By Angele Latham, BrieAnna J. Frank, Taylor Seely, Stephany Matat, and Cate Charron NASHVILLE − There’s turmoil over the state of free speech in America. The issue took center stage as free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world convened recently at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Conversations at the Global Free Speech Summit, […]

WCGU: Supporting Free Speech Requires Protecting Opinions You Strongly Disagree With

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Culture, Culture, First Amendment, First Amendment, In the news, Multimedia, News

By Mike Kiniry The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of […]