The 1981 TV drama “Skokie” did more than give Hollywood legend Danny Kaye one of his last meaty roles.The fact-based film showed the American Civil Liberties Union defending the worst free speech possible: Nazis marching in a Chicago hamlet teeming with Holocaust survivors.It’s easy to defend virtuous speech. Supporting odious speech, the kind that makes decent people wince, is more challenging.And all the more necessary.That ACLU is no more. The once fierce free-speech advocate stayed muzzled...
Tech mogul Elon Musk has folded in his so-called defense of free speech in his recent battle with a Brazilian court. On Monday, Musk's attorneys informed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes that social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) will comply with all of the censorship demands targeting accounts accused of spreading misinformation, according to Reuters. "As already communicated to the federal police, X Brasil informs that all orders issued by this Supreme Court...
Tech mogul Elon Musk has folded in his so-called defense of free speech in his recent battle with a Brazilian court. On Monday, Musk's attorneys informed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes that social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) will comply with all of the censorship demands targeting accounts accused of spreading misinformation, according to Reuters. "As already communicated to the federal police, X Brasil informs that all orders issued by this Supreme Court...
Elon Musk has put a lot on the line for free speech -- $44 billion to be exact.
This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...
This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...
It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.
In case you didn't know, May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. To that end, the Pew Research Center has released the
On a sun-drenched February morning, Taylor Lorenz fixed her gaze on her target. Lorenz’s doll-like eyes stared at Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik. Lorenz’s eyes were the only facial feature visible. Her mouth and nose were completely hidden under her ubiquitous and entirely useless black mask. Raichik was wearing a T-shirt with a 10 x 12-inch photo of Lorenz’s crying face emblazoned on it. Before Lorenz could open her muffled mouth, Raichik was trolling Lorenz with her shirt.
While the right to freedom of expression is guaranteed, not all speech is constitutionally protected. When speech is wielded in a weaponized way, it cannot be protected.
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — A Dearborn-area imam says he personally confronted a local protester who chanted slogans such as "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" at a recent rally. "I am absolutely against saying ‘Death to America,'" Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi told Fox News Digital. "I know in certain countries they may say these things, but I am personally against it even when they say this in any country; doesn’t matter where you say it because it doesn’t help." Elahi, who serves as imam at...
USC cancelled its pro-Palestinian valedictorian’s commencement speech, raising questions about the university’s limits on free speech. So, where’s the outrage from the cancel culture crowd? MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin calls out the double standard.