When author and professor Jennine Capó Crucet discussed white privilege during a recent talk at Georgia Southern University, a group of students walked out and started burning copies of Crucet’s book. Book burning is the stuff of actual totalitarian regimes, but it’s not what most commentators seem to have in mind when they fret …
IN CAMBODIA, journalism can be a crime. That is the meaning of the charges against two Cambodian journalists, Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin, who worked for Radio Free Asia (RFA), a private news organization that receives U.S. government funding to bring accurate news and information to people living in closed societies in …
The White House Correspondents‘ Association on Sunday said it is “closely monitoring” the White House press secretary’s decision to suspend the pass of reporter Brian Karem for 30 days. “We sincerely hope this White House does not again make the mistake of revoking a reporter’s hard pass,” Jonathan Karl, president …
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A federal judge has thrown out a Kentucky teen’s lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of falsely labeling him a racist after an encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial. Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, sued the newspaper for $250 million in …
First, YouTube said a streaming star’s repeated homophobic remarks about a Vox writer did not violate the platform’s rules. Then, after a lot of furious people sent a lot of furious tweets prompting a lot of scorn-filled news stories, YouTube determined the remarks did violate its rules, and announced it would strip advertising from the offending …
The bans are a sign that the social network is more aggressively enforcing its hate speech policies under pressure from civil rights groups. Facebook said on Thursday it has permanently banned several far-right and anti-Semitic figures and organizations, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Infowars host Alex Jones, Milo …
The arrest of the WikiLeaks founder amplifies an important free-speech conversation. The arrest of Julian Assange presages a free-speech debate that we’ve been avoiding for the seven years he was living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London: Can Assange be lawfully prosecuted for somehow facilitating illegal theft of classified information? Or is …
Some efforts are more sincere than others Even on April Fools’ Day, Singapore’s government was in no mood for fun. K. Shanmugam, the law minister, warned lawmakers of the dangers of unregulated speech, handing them a list of “offensive song lyrics”, which included hits by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande. Shortly …
The justifications for sealing a case don’t seem to fit the WikiLeaks founder. The word-processing error that unintentionally revealed the Justice Department’s sealed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is fascinating, not least because analogous mistakes can be found in texts going all the way back to the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. …
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Political speech is protected by the First Amendment, even when it’s nasty. Not for the first time, the First Amendment has saved Donald Trump. A federal district court in California was correct Monday to dismiss Stormy Daniels’s libel suit against the president for using the phrase “total con job” to describe her allegation of …