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- A New Internet Domain: Extortion Or Free Speech? http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/07/397886748/a-new-internet-domain-extortion-or-free-speech 41 comments
- Trump's purported free-speech social-media platform, Truth Social, is hiding user posts, threatening to create a curated 'echo chamber,' research group finds https://www.businessinsider.com/truth-social-is-shadow-banning-posts-despite-promise-of-free-speech-2022-8 75 comments politics
- WATCH: West’s Free Speech Threatened by Ukraine War https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/18/watch-wests-free-speech-threatened-by-ukraine-war/ 15 comments wikileaks
- Denying Florida professors’ free speech is a step backward for democracy | Commentary https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-florida-professors-league-of-women-voters-20211103-2jwkgo62mzdmdndzser3pul4ri-story.html#nt=pf-triple%20chain~politics-top-stories~feed-driven%20flex%20feature~automated~story-1~2JWKGO62MZDMDNDZSER3PUL4RI~1~1~1~8~art%20yes 120 comments politics
- It's the powerless who suffer when free speech is threatened https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/19/its-the-powerless-who-suffer-when-free-speech-is-threatened/?? 3 comments politics
- Weaponizing the First Amendment: How Free Speech Became a Conservative Cudgel https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/us/politics/first-amendment-conservatives-supreme-court.html 15 comments politics
- The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech: 2017 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ac64bfe4b0417c4066c2f1 10 comments politics
- Free Speech and Black Speech in Charleston, South Carolina http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/free-speech-and-black-speech-in-charleston-south-carolina_us_58af436be4b02f3f81e44521 4 comments politics
- Chavez continues his assault on free speech http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_internet 4 comments politics
- Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-meta-sheryl-sandberg 129 comments technology
- PragerU: We're Suing YouTube To Defend Free Speech — And We're Going To Win http://www.dailywire.com/news/22833/exclusive-prageru-were-suing-youtube-defend-free-james-barrett#exit-modal 9 comments technology
- Man Arrested For “F*** The Cops” Facebook Comment Wins Free Speech Lawsuit http://www.copblock.org/141824/man-arrested-f-the-cops-facebook-comment-wins-speech-lawsuit/ 285 comments politics
- Former CIA analyst accosted during Clinton speech about tolerating free expression - repost from r/worldnews http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/17/former-cia-analyst-accosted-during-clinton-speech-about-tolerating-free-expression/ 6 comments politics
- On Twitter, Trump accuses ‘social media’ of limiting free speech of conservatives https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/08/18/on-twitter-trump-accuses-social-media-of-limiting-free-speech-of-conservatives/?utm_term=.6fa6a89c573d 118 comments politics
- City (Boston) Issues Permit For 'Free Speech Rally' On Boston Common http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/08/16/medlar-free-speech-boston-rally 19 comments politics
- Trump vs. The Press: Threatening Free Speech with Libel Lawsuits http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/magazine/billionaires-vs-the-press-in-the-era-of-trump.html 34 comments politics
- Will a traffic plan at Trump’s new D.C. hotel block free speech? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-a-traffic-plan-at-trumps-new-dc-hotel-block-free-speech/2016/08/12/604cf282-5ff0-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html?utm_term=.58bdbf3c2c29 6 comments politics
- Iran's Holocaust cartoon contest: free speech or incitement? http://www.csmonitor.com/world/global-news/2016/0515/iran-s-holocaust-cartoon-contest-free-speech-or-incitement 11 comments worldnews
- Verizon: net neutrality violates our free speech rights http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/verizon-net-neutrality-violates-our-free-speech-rights/ 63 comments politics
- Verizon: 'net neutrality violates our free speech rights' http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/verizon-net-neutrality-violates-our-free-speech-rights/ 44 comments technology
- Professor Says His Right to Free Speech Violated http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/25/brandeis_professor_says_his_right_to_free_speech_violated?mode=pf 4 comments reddit.com
- Alt-Right, White Nationalist, Free Speech: The Far Right's Language Explained http://www.npr.org/2017/06/04/531314097/alt-right-white-nationalist-free-speech-the-far-rights-language-explained?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprpresents&utm_term=aboutnpr&utm_content=20170604 60 comments politics
- The trial of the century starts tomorrow against Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. His free speech is our free speech. Netherlands, the world is watching! http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2010/01/the-trial-of-geert-wilders-a-symposium/ 18 comments worldnews
- BTC is code, code is speech and speech is protected under US law. So is BTC free speech? Very interesting perspective. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/cxkqgr/btc_is_code_code_is_speech_and_speech_is/ 18 comments btc
- Marco Rubio's Israel anti-boycott law is an attack on free speech https://theweek.com/articles/816832/marco-rubios-israel-antiboycott-law-attack-free-speech 20 comments politics
- Sessions Equates Student Protesters To KKK During Remarks On Free Speech http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sessions-equates-protesters-kkk-remarks-free-speech?utm_content=buffer31b46&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 19 comments politics
- ‘Everybody Should Be Saying Things Like This’: Noam Chomsky on Free Speech and Inquiry After the Election https://psmag.com/noam-chomsky-talks-trump-free-speech-and-the-virtues-of-resistance-8b67f1756829#.6kbb7hhya 13 comments politics
- Trump spokeswoman: 'Donald Trump has single-handedly brought back free speech' http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-free-speech-218998 18 comments politics
- Rachel's Law: Protecting free speech in the age of "libel tourism." http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/02/rachels-law-protecting-free-speech-in.html 2 comments reddit.com
- 88% Say Free Speech is Good, But Only 53% Oppose Ban on Hate Speech http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/88_say_free_speech_is_good_but_only_53_oppose_ban_on_hate_speech 9 comments politics
- NBA in China: LeBron James should exercise free speech as Lakers land https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/josh-peter/2019/10/07/lebron-james-china-hong-kong-controversy/3903187002/ 96 comments sports
- Trump Adviser Argues The Civil War Was About Free Speech – In a Facebook post published Thursday, Miller suggests the Civil War was first and foremost about protecting free speech — not slavery. https://thinkprogress.org/sid-miller-trump-advisor-confederate-flag-e4d2517ace91#.n4js7wx2x 286 comments politics
- Muslim nations, with cooperation of the UN, criminalize free speech and claim protection from "religious critisism" is a human right. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5irhxsiojjdxqpg3kprro2lwmnwtad975tok00 5 comments reddit.com
- Ammon Bundy, wanted for arrest in Idaho, reportedly in Utah. “I pray that Utah has a stronger sense to protect free speech than Idaho does,” Bundy told independent investigative unit Bellingcat. Investigators used videos of Bundy to track him to Washington County. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/03/28/ammon-bundy-wanted-arrest-idaho/ 54 comments politics
- Team Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Platform Has a Child Abuse Problem | New research reveals the danger of the platform’s almost complete lack of moderation. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7engd/trump-gettr-app-child-abuse-problem 6 comments technology
- Internet Surveillance and Free Speech: the UN Makes the Connection -- "Communications surveillance should be regarded as a highly intrusive act that potentially interferes with the rights to freedom of expression and privacy and threatens the foundations of a democratic society" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/internet-and-surveillance-un-makes-the-connection 5 comments technology
- Right Wing ‘Patriots’ Reserve the Right of Free Speech Just for Themselves: One of the hallmarks of so-called hard-right 'patriots' is their immutable adherence to the Constitution and all of its tenets, and yet they reserve the most important right, that of free speech, for themselves http://www.politicususa.com/wing-patriots-reserve-free-speech.html 4 comments politics
- Verizon urges court to scrap the net-neutrality rules: 'Verizon claimed that the rules violate its First Amendment free speech rights... also argues the rules violate the Fifth Amendment by forcing broadband network owners to allow others to use their private property for free.' http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/235971-verizon-urges-court-to-scrap-net-neutrality-rules 166 comments politics
- Corporate Free Speech--It's time to pass laws that define corporate "personhood" for the purpose of defining which corporations enjoy First Amendment rights to donate to political campaigns. I think a good rule of thumb might be,"If it don't procreate, it don't rate." http://itbegsthequestion.com/?p=2170 4 comments politics
- New Zealand Prime Minister apologises to China after Green Party Co-leader calls for Chinese democracy and a free Tibet. It looks like free trade trumps free speech. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3834140/pm-apologises-to-chinese-delegation-over-tibet-protest 51 comments worldnews