Censorship
Will Germany's new law kill free speech online?
<b>In October a new law comes into force in Germany that will impose huge fines on social networks if they don't delete illegal content including hate speech. It's touched off a huge debate over freedom of expression and has attracted an unusual collection of opponents.</b><p>The law is called …
Rights & FreedomsSilicon Valley CEO Called Employees the N-Word and Hit Three Women, New Lawsuit Claims
Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to domestic assault, but remained in charge of companies where former co-workers say he ruled through fear and racial slurs.<p>The way Gurbaksh Chahal tells it, he’s living the American dream. Once a poor immigrant living in San Jose’s projects, Chahal struck it rich …
Business“The Muslim Problem” and Racism in UK Media: Thousands Call on Press Regulator to Hold Inquiry | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
<i>Almost five thousand people have emailed IPSO, the press regulator calling for an inquiry into racism in the UK media, in the wake of a column in the</i> …
Rights & FreedomsFacebook and Google need humans, not just algorithms, to filter out hate speech
Facebook and Google give advertisers the ability to target users by their specific interests. That’s what has made those companies the giants that they are. Advertisers on Facebook can target people who work for a certain company or had a particular major in college, for example, and advertisers on …
Machine LearningChannel 7’s Defamation Threat Demonstrates The Real Freedom Of Speech Crisis
The threat by one of the nation’s largest media companies, against one of the nation’s smallest, to sue over a column that attacked their …
Australian NewsFreedom of speech under attack by same-sex marriage, Bernardi warns – video
Speaking at the national launch for the no campaign, the Australian Conservatives senator Cory Bernardi warns of 'weaponised' anti-discrimination laws and 'legal warfare' against supporters of traditional marriage if the Marriage Act is changed to include same-sex couples. 'You can imagine ... the …
Same-sex Marriage“Free Speech Week” looks shaky as Berkeley Patriot loses venues
BERKELEY — The student group behind a “Free Speech Week” expected to bring Milo Yiannopoulos and other conservative speakers to UC Berkeley later …
UC BerkeleyChristian Dairy Queen owner hangs 'politically incorrect' sign in restaurant
A Dairy Queen owner in Wisconsin is standing by his decision to post a controversial sign describing his restaurant as “politically incorrect.” The sign, at the franchise in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, notifies customers that staff may say things like, “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Easter,” and “God Bless …
Political CorrectnessWhy is the government stifling the free speech of a private citizen?
It’s a chilling time for this country for many reasons writes Jessica Valenti in this edition of The Week in Patriarchy<p>As I write this, the internet is aflame with attacks on Jemele Hill - a reporter at ESPN who dared to call the president what he is: a racist and a white supremacist. In response, …
OpinionIs Trump right about cutting off the Internet to prevent terror attacks?
<b>(CNN) —</b> As is often the case after a terrorist attack, President Donald Trump quickly took to Twitter after Friday's explosion on the London Underground that injured more than 20 people. Trump tweeted, "Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner. The internet is their main …
OpinionThe moment a famous refugee meets a right-wing nationalist
A Syrian refugee and a candidate for a right-wing nationalist party disagree about a new German law that promises to crack down on hate speech online. What happened when they met in real life?<p>More on hate speech and Germany's tough new law: The lawyer who takes on Facebook over free speech<p><i>Video</i> …
Hate SpeechThe Jemele Hill controversy portends a world stripped of our culture of free expression
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pounced on ESPN anchor Jemele Hill’s tweet calling President Trump a white supremacist. The tweet, she said, was a “fireable offense.” While outrage is surging on all sides, Sanders’ intemperate use of her White House podium should not come as a …
Jemele HillFCC Chairman Ajit Pai: Free Speech ‘Under Siege’ in U.S.
WASHINGTON — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said that “free speech in practice seems to be under siege in this country,” pointing to protests to silence …
Net NeutralityWhat the Left (and Some on the Right) Don't Get About Free Speech
Of all the freedoms enshrined in our Bill of Rights, freedom of speech takes perhaps the highest priority. During the 2016 Presidential campaign, …
Ben ShapiroUC Berkeley Snowflakes Will Need Plenty of 'Counseling' After They See Who's Speaking at 'Free Speech Week'
UC Berkeley’s “Free Speech Week” is days away and already the school brass is attempting to tamp down enthusiasm at best or get it canceled at worst …
Milo YiannopoulosWith Trump's election and arguments over neo-Nazi websites, the tech industry consensus against internet regulation is crumbling
CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince (left) moderates a conversation with Larry Lessig (center), and Darren Bolding. Cloudflare<p><b>Cloudflare hosted its annual Internet Summit this past week.</b><p><b>At the event, CEO Matthew Prince openly discussed his controversial decision to drop a neo-Nazi website as a</b> …
BusinessHow Hong Kong’s champions of free speech are eroding our freedoms
Free speech is eroding. For this, we should partly blame the malicious words in online message boards, chat groups and social media that ridicule, …
News (China)Trump wants to ‘cut off’ the internet after London Tube bombing
President Donald Trump on Friday said he wanted to “cut off” the internet to prevent the so-called Islamic State from using it to entice new recruits …
CutoffThe missing trade war against China’s digital protectionism
Earlier this summer, the Trump administration took its first concrete step toward what some think could turn into an all-out trade war with China. …
ChinaHow the Coalition's 'blind ideology' over media reform stiffed Guardian Australia
In backroom dealing ministers showed their support for independent media had limits. We’ll keep producing Australian journalism our readers can be proud of<p>A few months ago Nick Xenophon approached me and the editors of other smaller independent and regional media companies with a reasonable …
Nick XenophonGoogle has targeted ads based on hate speech, too
Yesterday, <i>ProPublica</i> released a report on its investigation into the sorts of ad categories Facebook makes available to advertisers. It found that the website allowed it to target ads to users based on categories like "Jew hater" and "How to burn jews" among other antisemitic options. Today, …
AdvertisingA New Poll Shows That Nearly 4 in 10 Americans Can't Name a Single First Amendment Right
A new University of Pennsylvania poll revealed Tuesday that nearly four in 10 Americans can't even name their most basic constitutional rights, like …
Freedom Of SpeechBlocking hate speech from ads isn't hard — tech companies just need to care more
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are facing a lot of difficult questions over their ad policies after it came to light this week that all three companies allowed advertisers to run targeted ads based on hate speech.<p>Though the circumstances around each case were slightly different, each one was the …
Rights & FreedomsIf You Want to Run a Group Chat in China, Be Ready to Censor Your Friends
<i>The Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in internet rights around the world. It originally</i> …
Aung San Suu KyiHow I Believe Facebook Was Censoring My Political Speech
In the Summer of 2007 I traveled to China to speak at a conference concerning security preparations for the Olympic Games, which were to be held in …
Conservative ViewLGBT Activist Faces Gay Propaganda Charge For Sharing Links On Facebook
Local police charged Evdokia Romanova with violating Russia's "anti-gay propaganda" law by posting articles from BuzzFeed News and other outlets.<p>A Russian LGBT activist is being charged with violating Russia's controversial "anti-LGBT propaganda" law after sharing links on Facebook, Amnesty …
World NewsKenny Kunene ordered to remove explicit videos of woman linked to Ramaphosa
Nation Nyoka<p>Johannesburg - Businessman Kenny Kunene has been ordered to remove a sexually explicit video and photographs of an unnamed woman alleged …
News (South Africa)Gad Saad believes in free speech at (almost) all costs
Gad Saad is Jewish and emigrated from Lebanon due to religious persecution, yet he supports the freedom of speech of Holocaust deniers.<p>That’s how …
Indian journalists work in an 'atmosphere of intimidation'
The atmosphere for journalists in India is getting bleaker after the recent killing of publisher Gauri Lankesh. Journalist Monobina Gupta hopes that …
NewsThank God there’s no censorship on digital platforms: Vivek Oberoi
Vivek Oberoi, who featured in the web series Inside Edge, says censorship is an outdated idea and the fact that it’s not exercised on digital media, …
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