Verfassungsblog: Breaking the Silence on Sexual Violence in Cyprus: The EP’s Resolution on the Impact of the Turkish Invasion on Cypriot Women and the Expressive Dimension of Justice

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

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, […]

NOTUS: Americans Tell the Trump Administration to Back Off ‘The View’

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

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, […]

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 […]