As 2025 comes to a close, The Future of Free Speech team wants to thank you for making this year its most productive yet. At a time when both the legal foundations and the culture of free expression face mounting pressure worldwide, your support helped produce timely, independent work that brought much-needed clarity to an […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ÖREBRO, Sweden — December 16, 2025 — As generative AI becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, it is paramount that it protects the ability to speak, question, and share freely. Otherwise, it risks restricted or biased outputs corroding the public discourse on which democracy relies. On December 1, 2025, The Future of […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW REPORT: AI LAWS AND CHATBOTS FACE A GLOBAL FREE SPEECH TEST Study ranks countries’ AI policies and leading chatbots by how they handle lawful but controversial speech NASHVILLE, Tenn. — October 17, 2025 — Does your chatbot respond to prompts about controversial topics — or dodge them? That’s one of the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE, Tenn. — July 14, 2025 — A sweeping new rule proposed by the Missouri Attorney General would turn state regulators into online speech overseers, warns The Future of Free Speech in a public comment submitted Monday. The rule, labeled as a consumer protection measure, in fact mandates ideological balance in content […]
Photo by Gage Skidmore In memory of David Boaz (Vanderbilt Class of 1975), former Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute, The Future of Free Speech is honored to receive a generous gift that will further its mission to promote and protect free expression worldwide. Mr. Boaz, author of The Libertarian Mind, was a strong […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE, Tenn. — May 20, 2025 — In a public comment submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), The Future of Free Speech cautioned against efforts to regulate content moderation practices on technology platforms. The public comment comes amid an FTC inquiry into “tech censorship.” The nonpartisan think tank located at […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 18, 2025—NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, the critically acclaimed book by Jacob Mchangama, has returned in a new paperback edition. Originally released in 2022, this celebrated work is hailed as “the best history of free speech ever written” by P.J. O’Rourke and called “smart, insightful, and […]
We have partnered with TechFreedom and seven other civil society organizations to send two open letters addressing secret UK government orders pressuring Apple to break encryption on users’ cloud storage worldwide. Our letter to the UK Home Office warns that undermining encryption—a vital safeguard for free expression—violates the European Convention on Human Rights. Meanwhile, our […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 15, 2025 — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Today, the Supreme Court [upheld, overturned, delayed] the law that would ban TikTok in the United States. The Future of Free Speech, a nonpartisan think tank that recently submitted an amicus brief to the court in this case, has issued the following statement in response. […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. December 27, 2024 — Today, The Future of Free Speech joined the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Institute for Justice, Reason Foundation, and several other civil liberties organizations in an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in urging the Supreme Court to overturn the law banning TikTok. The brief argues that […]