Readers of the political press are familiar with the actions of Big Tech to censor the social media speech of former President Trump, several Republican Congressman, and purges of thousands of conservative social media accounts. Since these actions were taken by private parties against private parties, it is generally assumed the Constitution does not apply…
Best speech flourishes when hate speech is allowed. As Nadine Strossen, civil liberties activist and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said, “hate speech laws are at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive.” Strossen’s first premise is that in countries with stricter hate speech laws, there was a rise in racist hatred…
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By Anthony Rogers How, in a country that has a Bill of Rights claiming we have Free Speech and Freedom of Press in the First Amendment, are speech and press so controlled? The goal isn’t to tell the truth or make sure everyone on the internet is honest. The goal is to manipulate people into…
Actor, television host and podcaster Nick Cannon is now in the hot seat after a video surfaced of Cannon promoting black supremacy in his podcast. Nick Cannon says white people are "a little less," "closer to animals," "the true savages," "acting out of a deficiency so the only way they can act is evil." When…
Many conservatives are upset. They are upset that they cannot post their opinions, as they see fit, on various media outlets. President Trump just chimed in, using Twitter to denounce Twitter and other social media platforms by saying, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives (sic) voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them…
In a recent proposal to the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish National Party (SNP) has outlined new policies to enact “true equality” by regulating negative or critical speech of certain identity groups through legal punishment. This would mean that anyone whose open discourse, digital or otherwise, that happens to be critical of the reasoning for certain…
The next several years may be among the most important for the future of free speech since the United States’ founding. The parameters of the United States’ centuries-old debate on the First Amendment are undergoing rapid and irreversible change driven by an explosion in information and communication technology. Before the widespread adoption of social media,…
Just weeks ago, few could have predicted the fiery backlash that J.K. Rowling, author of the bestselling “Harry Potter” series, would receive from her own fans. Yet just before Christmas, that’s exactly what she received. Why? Because she dared defend a woman who was fired simply for expressing a defense of biological reality. Dress however you…
Kevin Daley An Illinois woman will soon ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her challenge to a state law barring the non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, colloquially known as “revenge porn.” Though the Supreme Court’s First Amendment precedents are generally protective of explicit or obscene images, the justices may consider the constitutionality of…
Comedian Dave Chappelle boldly defended the second amendment Sunday night as part of his impromptu acceptance speech for receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Mr. Chappelle defended the first amendment right of freedom of speech for all people, including comedians he said were “very racist.” He then went a step further by advocating…