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Muddled laws give them wide discretion | Britain (2025)
Free speech debate in Europe and the DSA Digital Services Act. It’s becoming dangerous to anger minority groups and politicians | Europe (2025)
America’s Supreme Court grapples with their fiercely contested “Section 230” immunity | United States (2023)
The obscure-sounding “notwithstanding clause” is actually rather dangerous | The Americas (2022)
The “notwithstanding clause” lets politicians nullify citizens’ rights. It needs to go | Leaders (2022)
The House and Senate are both pushing forward with the so-called “EARN IT” Act, a bill that will undermine encryption and free speech online. Attor... (2020)
A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users. (2020)
YouTube is banning instructional and promotional firearm videos. The battle over firearms has officially entered the digital realm. YouTube anno... (2018)
New poll shows they have mixed views on First Amendment issues. (2018)
PAKISTAN’S blasphemy laws have been a source of infamy for decades. International human-rights groups regularly document their abusive implementati... (2018)
A German satirical magazine's Twitter account was blocked after it parodied anti-Muslim comments, the publication said on Wednesday, in what the na... (2018)
India maintained a shutdown of the internet in the states of Assam and Meghalaya on Friday, now into 36 hours, to control protests over a controver... (2019)
“The Polish senate has passed a bill that calls for up to three years in prison for anyone who attributes the crimes of Nazi Germany (Guardian) t... (2018)
Online child exploitation is a horrific crime that requires an effective response, but this bill fails to meet the challenge and creates new proble... (2020)
If we all spoke circumspectly and wisely all the time, who would even need free-speech policies? (2022)
The Four Quadrants of Conformism - Paul Graham essay July 2020 One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggress... (2022)
Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself. (2021)
President Alivisatos continues the University’s tradition of upholding and promoting free expression and open discourse. (2021)
Let’s make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob. (2021)
By Anne Applebaum Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new nor... (2021)
Kieran Bhattacharya's First Amendment lawsuit can proceed, a court said. (2021)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a new proposal to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ahead of his testimony at a March 25th... (2021)
Pro-Publica has an excellent interview with Jeff Kosseff, the author of The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, a book about Section 230 of... (2021)
Building a system that puts readers and writers in charge With that in mind, we commit to keeping Substack wide open as a platform, accepting of... (2020)
The findings from the first-ever rankings of the free speech climates at 55 of America’s largest and most prestigious college campuses. (2020)
A new report finds a majority of students feel they can't express their opinions on campus, especially when they are in the ideological minority an... (2020)
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s... (2019)
The case could have broader implications for social media and other media outlets. In particular, a broad ruling from the high court could open the... (2018)
As the one-year anniversary of the tragedy in Charlottesville nears, we asked the presidents of Bowdoin, Elon and the University of Washington whet... (2018)
Despite calls for their ouster, public university professors who utter offensive things enjoy free speech protection. But a scholar argues for anot... (2018)
The former ACLU Executive Director and subject of the documentary, "Mighty Ira," joins Bill to disc... (2022)
The 1996 law is praised by the tech industry as the core pillar of Internet freedom. But its path also runs through some of the darkest corners of ... (2018)
Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram. OUTLINE:(00:00) - Introduction(02:46) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections(11:13) - Philosophy ... (2025)
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE -... (2024)
Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. In this special "3x" episode of our news show -- where we cover the he... (2020)
College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and RealClearEducation have released the first ever College Free Speech Rankings, a c... (2021)