Freedom Of Speech

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• First Amendment 2.0 Ratified by 3 FCC Commissioners? The Principle-less-ness of Net Neutrality

  
  The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland — Authority: 422
  The foundation of American Democracy for over 200 years has been respect for the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. The advent of the mainstream Internet in the 1990s created a new and exceptional medium for free expression, much as telephone, radio, movies, TV, faxes, dial-up, email, texting, etc. have ...
  8 hours ago

• Do not dare challenge global warming. This might happen to you

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  Thank you KitmanTV At a recent symposium on free speech given in Ottawa Canada by Joseph Ben-Ami’s Policy Studies group, many of the speakers discussed one currently fashionable method for destroying free speech which is magnificently exemplified in the video below. I will be posting the speeches from that Ottawa ...
  10 hours ago

• CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN DEMOTED BY THE POLITICAL CLASS

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  By Theodore Dalrymple, Daily Express (Hat Tip: eChurch websites ) By far the most significant thing about the case against Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang was that it reached a court of law in the first place. This evangelical Christian couple who run a hotel were accused of making derogatory remarks about the ...
  11 hours ago

• Take on the libel bullies

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Not everyone can be as lucky as I was – these laws are as outdated as the wigs and gowns The envelope was a funny shape – you dont get an envelope that shape without it meaning something bad; I dont know if sulphurous smoke was actually curling from it but it might as well have been. I was being sued for libel ...
  16 hours ago

• NYT > World: Britain, Long a Libel Mecca, Reviews Laws

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . England’s libel laws, which make jurisdiction easy to obtain and are weighted in favor of complainants, are under attack from publishers and scientists.
  17 hours ago

• Libel: Petition to change libel laws in wake of Carter-Ruck/Trafigura affair

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 443
  “Probo Koala” dumped 500 tonnes of toxic wastes, belonging to the Dutch commodity trading company Trafigura, at sites around the city of Abidjan, the West African nation’s largest city.According to official estimates, 15 people died, 69 people were hospitalized and over 100,000 others, complaining of nausea and ...
  19 hours ago

• The “Purpose of the Program” Argument and Christian Legal Society v. Martinez

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 776
  One more item about the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case: Some people argue that applying nondiscrimination conditions to student religious groups (alongside other groups) as a condition of funding violates the underlying purpose of the benefit program. Universities say they fund and provide space for ...
  19 hours ago

• Why No-Discrimination-Based-on-Religion Conditions for Government Benefits Aren’t Viewpoint-Discriminatory

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 776
  David and others have argued that university policies that deny benefits to groups that discriminate based on religion are unconstitutionally based on the groups’ viewpoint, when applied to religious groups. Other groups, the argument goes, are allowed to exclude people who don’t share the group’s ideology: ...
  19 hours ago

• Britain, Long a Libel Mecca, Reviews Laws

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Hannes Gissurarson, a professor at the University of Iceland, was sued over remarks that he posted on the University’s website.
  22 hours ago

• INCOG MAN HITS 1 MILLION

  
  INCOG MAN: Sick of all the BS... — Authority: 123
  Open thread celebration over at my blog. Come by and drop me a comment.
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• Editor & Publisher to Cease Publication

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 575
  This is sad story and I do mean that in quite the big way. It appears that Editor & Publisher , which has been in business since 1884 is going out of business ; that is unless someone steps forward, buys the magazine, and begins to sell it. There are a number of things, which one could blame — bad economy, ...
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• Wilders: showing up in force

  
  Islam in Europe - Commentary by Snouck — Authority: 117
  Geert Wilders summoned for Insulting Islam Geert Wilders is summoned by the Court of Amsterdam on December 4. The charge is insulting Islam . Calling for a demonstration for FOS The case is due on January 2010. Yesterday Mr. Wilders (Dutch) called for a demonstration supporting Freedom of Speech (FOS) at the ...
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• I Media, Skopje, Macedonia

  
  Sylwia Presley — Authority: 112
  The reason why I travelled to Skopje was a very kind invitation from GVers – @ieli and @razvigor (working on a daily basis for Metamorphosis Foundation ) to I Media conference dedicated to discussion around state of traditional and new media in Macedonia. First day was based on panel discussions, whereas ...
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• Variety’s Paywall Bailout Lottery

  
  raving lunacy - oxymorons for the 21st century — Authority: 111
  Paywalls are the last Bailouts for content industries attempting to maintain solvency on the internet. News and media organizations of all sorts, from hard news, specialty publications, audio and video industries are discovering that content surrounded by advertising may have kept the printing presses running, but ...
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• Cuba: Human Rights Day

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Diaspora blogger Uncommon Sense says that today, which commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “is a day to remember and honor this document, and more importantly, those in Cuba and around the world imprisoned and suffering for demanding that their governments abide by its ...
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• A plan to fix the libel laws | DD Guttenplan

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  I welcome the scathing indictment of UK libel laws by Index on Censorship and PEN, but I have a slightly shorter list of solutions I have a confession to make: I am a libel tourist. Its not pretty, I know, but how else would you describe someone who attended the McLibel trial, the David Irving trial and another ...
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• Christian hoteliers cleared of insulting Muslim guest

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 579
  A devout Christian couple have been cleared of insulting a Muslim guest at their hotel because of her faith and asking her if she was a terrorist when she wore the hijab. Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang denied using threatening, abusive or insulting words which were religiously aggravated. District judge Richard ...
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• Philippines: Bloggers Raise Voices Against Martial Law

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  As the world commemorates International Human Rights Day, Filipino bloggers are eerily reminded of the dark days of the Marcos dictatorship when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo imposed martial law in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao. According to the Arroyo administration, the declaration of martial ...
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• Victory for Free Speech

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  By Paul Bracchi, Mailonline One (highly paid) senior Crown prosecutor. Two policemen – including a detective chief inspector, no less – in court to testify against the accused. Behind them a team of six officers – yes, six – from the Merseyside forces specialist hate crime unit, assigned to investigate Ben ...
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• Ban the old South African flag

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 509
  When Springbok captain John Smit explained to those who had waived the old flags in the faces of him and his team that the players were aware of the fact that they were playing for all South Africans not just a minority, he captured right there the essence of the debate.The old South African flag [...]
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