Sydney University recently hosted sex therapist Bettina Arndt, an event which drew a large number of protesters.
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Universities should very rarely prevent controversial speakers from spreading their message.
Onwards to a Brexit paradise regained.
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Milton’s famous defence of free speech, Areopagitica, was a strange choice for the attorney general.
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Is controversy extremist? The Charity Commission seems to think so.
Students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., participate in protests against the appearance at the school of Faith Goldy, a white nationalist, in March 2018.
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The Ford government in Ontario is taking aim at free speech on the province’s campuses. But is it addressing a problem that doesn’t exist?
Chelsea Manning should be regarded as a whistleblower.
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Chelsea Manning’s disclosures on the Iraq war were major milestones in the emergence of the digital age whistleblower.
What causes a media business to bar the door?
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While they may talk about ‘free speech,’ businesses make decisions about their content based on a very different set of principles.
A crowd gathers around speakers during a rally for free speech near the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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On the one-year anniversary of the tragedy in Charlottesville, we asked the presidents of Bowdoin, Elon and the University of Washington whether free speech should be treated differently on campus.
Sir Cliff Richard: what BBC did was an abuse of free speech.
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Judge’s decision means the media cannot identify a suspect until they are arrested. This may be challenged on appeal.
The lawyer for the plaintiff successfully argued that sharing a 3D scan of a firearm on the internet was protected on free speech grounds.
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A US gun rights advocate has won the right to publish instructions on the web for 3D printing firearms. In an era where anyone can access a 3D printer, is this the end of gun control?
Faith Goldy, an alt-right champion who appeared in an interview on a white nationalist site, speaks outside Wilfrid Laurier Univesity in March 2018.
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Free speech may protect offensive speech, but we degrade this central right when we see it as simply the right to offend, regardless of the impact on others.
Jordan Peterson speaks to a crowd during a stop in Sherwood Park, Alta., in February 2018. Peterson is suing an Ontario university and three of its staff for defamation.
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Jordan Peterson’s lawsuit against Laurier is hardly the action of a free speech advocate. Here’s how he resembles Cleon of ancient Greece.
‘Free speech zones’ and other efforts to limit free speech on campus are igniting controversies across the nation.
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Though free speech on campus is often a divisive issue, solutions are not hard to find, a First Amendment scholar argues.
The president uses his Twitter feed to make official announcements.
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A Twitter account used for official purposes is a public forum protected by the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The justices have previously ruled that the government cannot compel people to speak its message or associate with ideas they do not hold.
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Most people know that the First Amendment protects free speech. But two upcoming Supreme Court cases reveal how it also gives people in the US the right not to speak.
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In new guidance, students and universities could be banned from censoring controversial speakers on campuses following the first ministerial intervention on free speech in 30 years.
Public university professors enjoy great protections when it comes to free speech.
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Despite calls for their ouster, public university professors who utter offensive things enjoy free speech protection. But a scholar argues for another way to respond to what those professors say.
Cartoonist Godfrey Mwampembwa was fired from a leading Kenyan daily newspaper for his political views.
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New forms of artistic expression are driving debates in East Africa that challenge sensitive subjects. But the backlash has been vicious.
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Safe spaces are fundamentally at odds with the rigorous intellectual exchange central to the idea of a university.
Facebook’s actions – or inactions – facilitated breaches of privacy and human rights associated with democratic governance.
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Human rights abuses might be embedded in the business model that has evolved for social media companies in their second decade.
The free speech wars rage on but there is an essential difference between free speech and hate speech. Words shape the way we think about the world.
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Most Canadians are more than happy to support free speech, believing it to be the foundation of democracy. But for speech to be free it must be aligned to freedom itself.