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Misinformation Doesn’t Kill People—People Kill People
Do we give up one of our fundamental freedoms due to the few whackos who will get a rise out of “hate speech” and uncontrollably wreak havoc as a result?
Israeli Military Forces Executed Numerous Journalists Since 10/7
The Israeli military’s campaign of genocidal violence, carried out with the full support of President Joe Biden’s administration, has killed 138-175 journalists.
“We Lose Total Control”: Hillary Clinton’s Censorship Campaign
Clinton continues to offer a textbook example of the anti-free speech narrative. While seeking sweeping censorship for anything deemed disinformation, Clinton cites specific examples that are already barred under federal law like child porn.
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
This is post-9/11 America. Whether about surveillance, or torture, or habeas corpus, or secret prisons, or rendition, or any of a dozen other things, we ignore laws. Institutional impunity is the chief characteristic of our current form of government.
John Kerry vs. The First Amendment
Kerry, cloistered in the comfort of the Davos bubble, reminded us just how difficult it is to govern when the masses actually get to speak their minds.
Journalists must be free to publish leaked documents
From the Pentagon Papers to Hunter Biden’s laptop, it’s a legitimate and necessary public service.
Fake news was invented 500 years ago
The parallels between the present day and the witchcraft accounts that flew off the printing presses of 16th-century Europe are all too clear. Today, the hunt has shifted to groups used as scapegoats for the economic deprivation and other ills that blight our societies.
California Sued Over New “Deepfake” Law
Public officials and public figures are subject to the higher standard of defamation (New York Times v. Sullivan.) However, it is not clear that it will suffice for a law with potential criminal liability and a law with sweeping limits on political speech.
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