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Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2025

7 years since shocking hate crime, civil rights suit over Nantucket public meeting surfaces racial tension

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Nantucket African Meeting House, 1880 Nantucket Historical Association A shocking hate crime of vandalism on storied Nantucket Island in 201...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Academics plan campus free expression conference in Israel, but security concerns compel postponement

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Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv Davidi Vardi Pikiwiki Israel via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 An academic conference in Israel will conside...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

From national TV to local school, suspension of dissenters evidences worrisome speech suppression

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Google Gemini CC0 Free speech is in danger in the United States, and two recent matters, one national and one local to me, are representativ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

'Take It Down' Act purports to redress revenge porn, but invites censorship by only incentivizing take-down

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Derived from Google Gemini, RJ Peltz-Steele CC0 President Trump signed into law bipartisan federal revenge porn legislation Monday—alas, not...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Court's pass on Wynn bid to revisit 'actual malice' makes sense, but standard still fuels misinformation

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Wynn operates the Encore Casino in Everett, Mass., since a dust-up with authorities over ownership. Holiday Point via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

UK anti-SLAPP bill takes fire

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The United Kingdom has an anti-SLAPP bill on the table, and lawyer Gideon Benaim has cataloged objections. In broad strokes, the bill foll...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Student media combat criminalization of speech

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The criminalization of journalism is the worry at the heart of the Julian Assange case, as a UK court mulls the possibility of his extraditi...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Indian court refuses injunction of fantasy cricket league in unlicensed use of player names, likenesses

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Free SVG In case about fantasy sports, the Delhi High Court in India ruled in late April that satire, news, and art must enjoy protection fr...
Friday, May 12, 2023

German court protects political satire in 'fake interview'

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Katrin Göring-Eckardt Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung CC BY-SA 2.0 In August 2022, a German court rejected a politician's claim that a satiric ...
Friday, March 24, 2023

In wake of Stanford free speech fiasco, Duncan models civility, and dean surprises with powerful letter

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Abortion rights rally at Stanford Law in 2022. (Suiren2022 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 ) After the brouhaha at Stanford Law School i...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

'Civility' is code for conformity

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks ago struck down a town policy purporting to require civility in public meetings. The town...