A brief history of the freedom of speech
James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted on referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech to emphasize that ...
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Free Speech
Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...
Immigrants and Freedom of Speech
How is this legal? The First Amendment, after all, protects freedom of speech in nearly absolute terms. It allows people to ...
New Jersey Herald4dOpinion
Why does government want to silence its opponents? Defend freedom of speech
We have hired a government to protect our speech, not to tell us how to live. Instead, it does whatever will keep it in power ...
Literary portrait of Spanish child murderer prompts freedom of speech debate
In an open letter published by Spanish media, Ms Ortiz herself warned that the book threatened to “re-victimise” those ...
In Berlin, Europe’s elite are very nervous there’s too much freedom of speech
The World Forum in Berlin is calling for a new world order based on European values, but this vision is based on a flawed ...
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University of Sussex fined £585k in transgender free speech row
The University of Sussex has been fined £585,000 by the higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), for failing to uphold freedom of speech. The OfS investigation started with the ...