Cato Unbound:”How Censorship Crosses Borders”
Jacob Mchangama describes what he terms a “cross-fertilization of censorship,” in which regimes both free…
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The Fiftf Column:”A conversation w/ Jacob Mchangama, Host of ‘Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech” podcast”
A conversation w/ Jacob Mchangama, Host of ‘Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free…
Reason Magazine:”How the Right Abandoned Free Speech in Europe”
The center-right Danish government, whose members defended the Mohammed cartoons, has passed more laws restricting…
Index on Censorship:”Censorship gone viral: The cross-fertilisation of repression”
For around six decades after WWII ideas, laws and institutions supporting free expression spread across…
Quilette:”The Feminist Case for Free Speech”
These were just a few of the tweets sent to British journalist Caroline Criado‑Perez when she campaigned…
The World Weekly:”Is this Europe’s most drastic move yet against ‘migrant ghettos’?”
Denmark has unveiled a controversial plan to tackle ‘parallel societies’ in a week when tough…
BBC:”Denmark plans double punishment for ghetto crime”
The Danish government plans to double the penalties for crimes committed in deprived “ghetto” areas,…
Quilette:”Why Free Speech Matters”
From 1980 – 2003 the number of countries with a free press grew from 51 to 78.…
MURMUR:”New laws threaten to shift the balance of power between citizens and the state”
Protestors are being prosecuted using new, stricter laws designed to protect public servants from violence.…
The Washington Post:”Twitter’s efforts to crack down on abusive speech are bound to backfire”
Twitter — which once prided itself on being the “free speech wing of the free speech party” — is…