Ontario’s Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act threatens to undermine university autonomy, and could serve to censor critical thinking and dissent on campuses.
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Our city streets are covered with posters, signage, art and graffiti. How can these public images support diversity and justice in cities?
In Ontario and in Alberta, university decisions about balancing free expression and protection from harm will be an important test of recent university policy shifts pertaining to free expression.
The decisions made by Facebook through its content moderators and Oversight Board have significant implications for the exercise of worldwide freedom of expression and speech.
First seen in Prague in 1980, a form of public protest and free expression has spread throughout Hong Kong and around the world.
Despite the headlines, the biggest concerns of students on college campuses are not politics, discrimination or free expression.
Differences of opinion are the lifeblood of universities and essential to advancing knowledge. But some universities are giving in to intimidation by cancelling events with controversial speakers.
After violence in Charlottesville, internet firms are erasing bigoted content. But should private companies serve as unaccountable regulators and be responsible for policing complex social issues?
In his lifetime Anthony Burgess was a strong advocate of free expression. A forthcoming book promises to bring his political writing back into focus.
Cracking down on extremism online won’t solve the problem of extremist violence, will inevitably censor speech that’s important to protect and risks harming political dissidents and democracy itself.
Are speech codes and free-speech zones silencing speech on college and university campuses?
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Professor of Modern Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
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Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor, Criminology, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
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Director, Centre for Free Expression & Distinguished Visiting Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy, Brandeis University
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