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Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine2010-09-11
Seriously Free Speech Committee
The author of a new book on antisemitism kicks off a Western Canada tour Sept. 17 to sound an alarm that a coalition of MPs (CPCCA) is intent on outlawing criticism of Israel as being antisemitic, pos...
Battle Over Google Subpoena Threatens Critical Online Free Speech Protections2015-02-02
Electronic Frontier Foundation
A high-profile battle over whether Google must respond to an unusual and dangerous subpoena raises fundamental concerns about federal free speech law and the protections it affords hosts of online con...
Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE 'free expression' prize with Reporters Without Borders2009-12-09
Reporters without Borders
Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
Connexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
CPCCA report threatens Canadians democratic rights, free speech2011-07-13
Seriously Free Speech Committee
The report by Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-semitism uses the false threat of a growing anti-semitism to justify measures in fact intended to eliminate criticism of Israel but threat...
Dershowitz and Keefer "face off" in Vancouver debate this week whether Israel's critics are anti-semitic2010-09-19
Seriously Free Speech Committee
Canadian professor Michael Keefer warns that Alan Dershowitz' and coalition of Canadian MPs (CPCCA) pose threat to free speech, using baseless accusations of antisemitism to defend Israel. Keefer spe...
Don't forget Liu Xiaobo, held for the past five years2013-12-29
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its full support for Chinese free speech advocate Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize and his family and stresses the importance of his fight.
EducationSources.caSources
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
EFF to Court: Posting 3-D Design Files Online Is Free Speech2015-12-19
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The U.S. government cannot require Americans to go through an export licensing scheme prior to posting and sharing 3-D printer design files online, because publishing technical information is a form o...
Free speech activist prevented from leaving Iran2009-02-19
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian governmentâ##s decision to ban Abdolreza Tajik, a freelance journalist and staunch free speech activist, from leaving the country.
Free Speech Groups Issue New Guide to the International 'Necessary & Proportionate Principles'2014-06-02
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF and ARTICLE 19 Urges Governments to Preserve Fundamental Freedoms in the Age of Mass Surveillance
Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy2010-03-30
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of 'annoying others'2010-07-23
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arab...
IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks2010-12-07
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free spe...
IFJ Welcomes Indictment of Former Security Operatives over Journalist's Torture in Colombia2013-03-16
International Federation of Journalists
Seven former members of the former secret service in Colombia, the Administrative Department for Security (DAS), face charges of - psychological torture and intimidation' inflicted on prominent journ...
Jason Kenney’s “anti free speech” conference sponsorship to be exposed on Monday2010-11-04
Independent Jewish Voices
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is sponsoring an international conference of the ‘Inter-Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism’ (ICCA). The press conference will shed light on the threat th...
Jewish human rights group condemns U of Manitoba Student Union attack on freedom of speech2013-04-15
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices responds to Israel supporters' attack on freedom of speech.
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries2010-01-04
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions2011-03-11
IFEX - International Freedom of Expression Exchange
More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions...
RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing ban2015-12-22
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproport...
Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution 2009-11-04
Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization o...
Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite2011-03-16
OrangeWebsite
Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee2010-10-17
Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom2009-04-28
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance2009-10-22
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
Whistle blower site RCILeaks.Org wins Icelandic free-speech court battle against Canadian immigrant investor firm2012-10-04
OrangeWebsite.com
Irreverent Canadian corporate whistleblower site RCILeaks.Org, and its Icelandic internet service provider OrangeWebsite.com, have won a landmark free speech court battle in the Reykjavik District Cou...
WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up2010-12-07
Wikileaks
As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create m...
A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"2016-01-11
Reporters Without Borders
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious...
Sources Select Resources
Against CensorshipDiemer, Ulli
Article
1995
Ulli Diemer
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISISNamazie, Maryam
Article
2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be IllegalThe Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3
Mykytyn, Eve
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
On November 7, 2015, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments up...
AUSTRALIA: Some reflections on the Anzac Day 'cyber-lynching' of a journalistKenneally, Mathew;
Article
2015
Media Pacfic Watch
The right of free speech v. the rightnot to be offended. A sports commentator has been fired over things he said on twitter, things unrelated to his job.
Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) SiteArticle
2009
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why. Maybe just by griping about them or maybe through a bit of paro...
Beyond the Sacred Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety MinisterDiemer, Ulli
Article
2015
Radical Digressions
Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
Bill C-51: A Legal PrimerOverly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
Ruby, Clayton; Nader R.,Hasan
Article
2015
CCPA
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaksAssange, Julian
Article
2017
The Washington Post
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.
Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
Content Magazine - Number 78September/ October 1977
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
Content Magazine - Number 93February 1979
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1979
Defending the right to offend, shock or disturbArticle
2009
World Press Freedom Committee
Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
Diemer, UlliConnexipedia Article
Article
2010
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
A Different Kind of Safe SpaceGup,, Ted
Article
2016
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
Don't Incite CensorshipMalik, Kenan
Article
2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor Barnett, David
Article
2016
The Guardian
From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speec...
EducationSources.caWebsite
2017
Sources
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
Excerpts from secretly recorded meeting between Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and facultyAudio
2017
Lindsay Shepherd, a Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student and teaching assistant, landed in hot water with the university over a video clip, featuring controversial University of Toronto profess...
Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. GoogleMcSherry, Corynne
Article
2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Free speech must remain free; regardless of how nasty the message may be. This is a story about the peservation of free speech and the abuses of copyright law.
Free Speech and Acceptable TruthsStatement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Alumni for Responsible Speech (Ulli Diemer)
Article
2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by in...
'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyoneDiemer, Ulli
Article
2009
Canadian Dimension - Volume 43, Number 1 - January/February 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on ...
Free Speech, but Not for All?Gup, Ted
Article
2017
The Chronicle
Just over a century ago, the president of a distinguished college barred the suffragette and human-rights activist Jane Addams from speaking on campus, and suspended a student named Inez Milholland fo...
Free Speech and Double StandardsMalik, Kenan; Pike, Duncan
Article
2016
Pandamonium
Free speech for me - you shut upDiemer, Ulli
Article
2008
Ulli Diemer
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and PrinciplesDiMaggio, Anthony
Article
2017
CounterPunch
The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever...
Free Speech Groups Issue New Guide to the International 'Necessary & Proportionate Principles'Sources News Release
Article
2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF and ARTICLE 19 Urges Governments to Preserve Fundamental Freedoms in the Age of Mass Surveillance
Free Speech in a Plural SocietyMalik, Kenan
Article
2006
The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in wh...
Free Speech in an Age of Identity PoliticsMalik, Kenan
Article
2015
Pandaemonium
Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
Free Speech Movement ArchivesWebsite
Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
Free Speech Protection Act could slow 'libel tourism'Mahoney, Robert
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Free press advocates in Britain are looking to a bill stuck in the U.S. Congress for moral support in the fight to reform England#s draconian defamation laws. The U.S. bill, the Free Speech Protection...
Free Speech and Unsafe SpacesMalik, Kenan
Article
2017
Pandaemonium
Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robus...
Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powersAppleton, Josie
Article
2015
The Ecologist
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being home...
Freedom of Speech Under SiegeWollstein, Janet
Article
1991
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
The Global Battle for Free SpeechWikiLeaks: Bringing the First Amendment to the World
Hayase, Nozomi
Article
2014
Counterpunch
Since 2011, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins ...
Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-DissidentsArticle
2008
Reporters without Borders
Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularl...
Hate speech in a plural societyMalik, Kenan
Article
2005
One of the ironies of living in a more inclusive, more diverse society appears to be that the preservation of diversity requires us to leave increasingly to leave less room for a diversity of views. S...
Here come the thought policeSpratt, Michael; Moore, Chelsea
Article
2014
ipolitics.ca
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
Here We Go AgainMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe ...
How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes Cantú, Aaron
Article
2015
truthout
Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this p...
Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemySources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of 'annoying others'Sources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arab...
If gender identity debate at U of T was about free speech, then the battle is truly lostBlatchford, Christie
Article
2016
National Post
A recounting and criticism of the public debate over Bill C-16 and the Ontario Human Rights code, held in response to the remarks of University of a University of Toronto professor about transgender p...
IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaksSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free spe...
IFJ Welcomes Indictment of Former Security Operatives over Journalist's Torture in ColombiaSources News Release
Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists
Seven former members of the former secret service in Colombia, the Administrative Department for Security (DAS), face charges of - psychological torture and intimidation' inflicted on prominent journ...
In Defense of Free SpeechIt's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
Giambrone, Joe
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech'Cook, Jonathan
Article
2010
The National
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups.
JournalismSources.comWebsite
2017
Sources
A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A sea...
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuriesSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
The Making of Jericho RoadAgainst The Current vol. 132
Williams, Charles
Article
2008
Against The Current
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
Malik, KenanConnexipedia Article
Article
Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in CharlottesvilleGreenwald, Glen
Article
2017
The Intercept
You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of ...
New extremism laws would stifle free speechIndex on Censorship
Article
2015
X index
New and vaguely defined counter-extremism laws threaten freedom of speech in the UK. Anyone who disagrees with the government can, theoretically, be banned from media exposure.
New law further restricts freedom of speech and freedom of the press in HungaryDojcsak, Dalma
Article
2013
IFEX
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU, or “TASZ” in Hungarian) has criticized a new law, enacted by the Hungarian Parliament. The new law punishes by up to three years in prison the creation and d...
No platform or no democracy?Malik, Kenan
Article
1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be prot...
No Platform Won't WorkTripathi, Sali
Article
2009
Index on Censorship
It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything 'establishmen...
An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-SemitismArticle
2017
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014Spying, terrorism, and protest
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015Workers' Health and Safety
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the mur...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urb...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017April 1 issue
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critica...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. Th...
Out Lickspittle PressDoorkeepers to the House of Lies
Roberts, Paul Craig
Article
2010
CounterPunch
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information incons...
Out of BoundsMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
Why do we talk so much about hate speech these days? Largely because hate speech has become a way of rebranding extremist ideas to stress their moral content; in other words, of rebranding obnoxious p...
Outspoken professor stokes free-speech debate at East Coast universityArticle
2018
National Post
An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments, stoking a national debate about free speech on campus amid calls for his ouster from the...
Pakistani Company Accused of Running Fake Degree Scam Has a History of Silencing CriticsQurratulain, Zaman (Annie)
Article
2015
Global Voices
On immoral companies and small voices. A Pakistani company has been silencing accusations of illegality through the intimidation of big law suits.
PEN Canada calls for changes to human rights commission legislationArticle
2008
PEN Canada
Human rights commission legislation should be changed to ensure that commissions can no longer be used to attempt to restrict freedom of expression.
Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of EmpireMumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
Hayase, Nozomi
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facili...
Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more powerDiemer, Ulli
Article
1984
Ulli Diemer
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free SpeechHayase, Nozomi
Article
2017
CounterPunch
US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of...
Protect the Freedom to ShockMalik, Kenan
Article
2001
Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to ta...
Radical DigressionsDiemer, Ulli
Website
2006
Ulli Diemer
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic FreedomVigo, Julian
Article
2017
Counterpunch
Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing t...
Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotryMalik, Kenan
Article
2017
Pandaemonium
In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a fo...
RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing banSources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproport...
6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes4 Ways the Rest of Us Can Help
Eckersley, Peter
Article
2009
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to ...
Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of ExpressionChomsky, Noam
Article
1980
It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'Boggs, Carl
Article
2017
CounterPunch
Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more d...
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedomSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
Things My Students Don't KnowSchwalbe, Michael
Article
2016
Counter Punch
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a rece...
Thou Shalt Not Give OffenceMalik, Kenan
Article
2017
Pandaumonium
Kenan Malik looks at the free speech debates around the Danish cartoons and Charlie Hebdo.
To Name The Unnameable Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
A Tribute to Mario Savio and the FSMParker, Mike
Article
1997
Against the Current
Mario Savio was a brilliant leader because he was careful to lay out the principles and choices before you. To follow Mario was to make your own choice, to know what you were doing and take responsibi...
Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the LeftMalik, Kenan
Article
On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intoleranceSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
Unlawful DissentNew Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Warnke, Brett
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
US military taps 'sock puppets'Fake personas on social websites to manipulate and influence opinion
Fielding, Nick; Cobain, Ian; Rushe, Dominic
Article
2011
The Guardian
A new $2.76 million dollar 'counter-terrorism' initiative to create a pro-America online presence using fake online personas is underway. These interventions will not be conducted in English or on Ame...
Vietnam: Blogger's Arrest Alarms Free Speech AdvocatesArticle
2009
Asia Media Forum
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Vietnamese pro-democracy blogger Nguyen Tien Trung on July 7 for allegedly engaging in anti-state activities.
What Are We Allowed to Say?Bromwich, David
Article
2016
London Review of Books
Free speech is an aberration -- it is best to begin by admitting that. In most societies throughout history and in all societies some of the time, censorship has been the means by which a ruling group...
When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?Malik, Kenan
Article
2013
Pandaemonium
Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and sta...
Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic MissionFriedersdorf, Conor
Article
2017
The Atlantic
Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on IslamNamazie, Maryam
Article
2016
Free Thought Blogs
This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of h...
WikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free SpeechHayase, Nozomi
Article
2016
CounterPunch
We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collat...
With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online SpeechGreenwald, Glenn
Article
2015
The Intercept
Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "...
A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"Sources News Release
Article
2016
Reporters Without Borders
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious...
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Content Magazine - Number 78September/ October 1977
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
Content Magazine - Number 93February 1979
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1979
Copyright's ParadoxNetanel, Neil Weinstock
Book
2008
Explores the tensions between copyright law and free speech concerns, revealing how copyright laws can impose unacceptable burdens on speech.
The Cost of Free SpeechLee, Simon
Book
1990
In the wake of the Ayatollah's "fatwah" against Salman Rushdie and in the turbulent context of terrorism in Northern Ireland, free speech really can lead to death, according to the author. This book o...
Culture of ComplaintThe Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Book
1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasan...
50 Ways to Fight CensorshipAnd Important Facts to Know about Censors
Marsh, Dave
Book
1991
A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
Free SpeechA Very Short Introduction
Warburton, Nigel
Book
2009
Covers a wide-range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. Offers a concise quide to many of the vexing issues concerning our...
Free SpeechTen Principles for a Connected World
Ash, Timothy Garton
Book
2016
Ash offers a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age.
Writing in an Age of SilenceParetsky, Sara
Book
2007
Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.
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