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Alex Jones lost a defamation suit by Sandy Hook parents for falsely claiming they helped fake the murders of their children. But the judgment doesn’t deal with important First Amendment questions.
The University of Florida is barring three scholars from testifying as expert witnesses in a highly political lawsuit. A veteran college administrator looks at what’s at stake.
Without academic freedom and rule of law it’s hard to see how China’s economy can continue to grow so fast.
Canada needs to overhaul its approach to addressing online harms if it wants to remain a human rights leader and champion of internet freedom.
A terse piece of legislation from 1996 has been credited with creating the internet as we know it – and blamed for the flood of misinformation and other ills that have come with it.
The sentencing of Tong Ying-kit shows how the Hong Kong court system will treat those accused under its new national security law.
Tolerating political protest is an essential part of democratic life. But when the protests pose a genuine risk of harm to the community, that’s when they are no longer ethically justified.
Former President Trump is asking the courts to do what tycoon Trump once would have denounced: tell some of America’s most powerful corporations that they have no choice who they do business with.
Rumble is a Canadian video-streaming platform that presents itself as an alternative to YouTube. Because Rumble does not censor content, right wing conspiracy theories have proliferated on the site.
The International Olympic Committee’s Rule 50 still restricts the freedom of speech of athletes, despite the recently relaxed stipulations. A respected Olympian says the IOC must change its policy.
Tighter controls are not the answer; the opportunity should be used to think differently about trust and journalism. It is critical to enable audiences to distinguish reliable, verified information.
As a teacher, an academic cannot use freedom of speech to say something that may directly demean or intimidate a student. But as a researcher, they must have the freedom to pursue the truth.
A new report has found students and academics critical of China’s Communist Party are being harassed and intimidated by supporters of Beijing. Universities must do more to protect academic freedom.
A Supreme Court ruling about a student’s free-speech rights won’t stem the torrent of crude, disrespectful speech in American society.
The majority of those punished under the laws to combat false information are opposition politicians or journalists.
The Mahanoy v. B.L. ruling did not give schools or free-speech advocates the clear lines they may have wanted, but it did attempt to address some of the complexity of modern-day speech.
Can post-secondary students be punished for social media posts, even those made off-campus?
The case may set a precedent about what is fixated behaviour and an appropriate use of the FPIU.
Journalists should be permitted to express themselves on social media. As this week illustrates, though, doing so can lead to a dilemma for their employers.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics., Griffith University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Professor Emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
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Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer, School of Law, University of Aberdeen
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Higher Education, University of Mississippi
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
