(Advance Australia/Facebook) In effect, this would be a backdoor expansion of government hate speech laws online.

speech has told The Epoch Times.

News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “civilizing” the internet within its borders and proposing similar crackdowns globally in what should be a wake-up call to people who value their online freedom. China’s cyberspace regulator is planning to establish a “civilized” internet that reshapes online discourse for more thorough dissemination of CCP propaganda into […]

People participate in a “Demand Free Speech” rally on Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., on July 6, 2019.

Though it has in the past year been embroiled in free speech rows, one involving JK Rowling and Chocolat author and SoA chair Joanne Harris.

Trump does have free speech rights, those rights are not absolute. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has renewed calls for Secret Service protection for him after an Ecuadorian presidential candidate’s assassination on Aug. 9.

But the Digital Services Act threatens to universalize content moderation by social media and search engines, subjecting them to the EU’s stringent and anti-free-speech laws against “disinformation” and “hate speech,” which aren't (yet) recognized legal

advent of laws proscribing “hate speech” in the United States, show either an ignorance of or contempt for American traditions and legal precedent upholding freedom of expression, a free speech advocate has told The Epoch Times.

Less Supportive of Free Expression In June, the Higher Education Policy Institute polled 1,000 full-time undergraduates on free speech issues, concluding that students are significantly less supportive of free expression than they were just a few years

But a small-town Baptist preacher told him in a Nov. 19 private meeting that what persecuted Nigerian Christians want most is free speech.

The Supreme Court is set to hear two cases about online speech this week. They're about whether social media platforms could be sued for recommending content to users. Meta wants users to pay a monthly fee to get a check mark.

According to Dacus this growing trend of intolerance and censorship is "dangerous to the survival of a free nation and the continued relevance of our Constitution as applied to our free speech rights."

But it is imperative that we understand such lenity as prudence—not myopic free speech absolutism.

Dennis talks about free speech challenges facing academics in British universities, the dangerous rise of therapeutic education, and what can be done to reinstate academic freedom.

(Simon Dawson/Reuters) 'A New Low' Free Speech Union General Secretary Toby Young, whose news website The Daily Sceptic also had its PayPal account closed, told The Epoch Times that "this feels like an escalation in the ongoing war against free speech

A Chinese asylum seeker tells his 10-year story of ordeals in China while exercising free speech, and his endeavor to inform others of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) crimes.

“Free speech is not just another value,” Dr. Peterson told the BBC. “It’s the foundation of Western civilization.”

speech.

Musk, a self-described free speech absolutist, took to Twitter on Nov. 6 to reiterate his pledge for open discourse on Twitter.

But it all points to the same thing—your speech is being monitored by people who have the power to shut you down for good if you get on their bad side. If they can stop Joe Rogan in his tracks, they can break you, too.

"He appears to be a guy that wants free speech to reign on the internet," Paxton said. 

In April, critics of the Bill said it would erode freedom of speech and could drive more people towards the darkweb.

“China does not attempt to interfere with the free speech of the press in the U.S., as far as I’m aware,” Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg at the forum. “I don’t think this is going to be an issue.”

With migrant encounters at the southern border up 550 percent since March 2020, you would think the Department of Homeland Security would be directing its resources toward stopping illegal immigration. Instead, it says it’s honing in on so-called “disinformation.” Why are conservative commentators saying that this announcement has an unsettlingly “Orwellian” feel to it? Where […]

Musk has pledged to make the platform better by respecting free speech.

Smith said the new position would focus, in part, on protecting free speech rights on university and college campuses.

—A non-profit group filed a lawsuit on Feb. 23 against the University of Houston (UH) for a harassment policy they claim punishes free speech.

He also said the OfS is "working closely with the government" on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which will put more legal duties on universities and colleges to protect free speech on campuses.