The ideal and limits of free speech and expression, and also the free access to information, as well as the various legal and extra-legal attempts at limiting that civil right. Censorship includes not only government actions against any media, published or not, but also the active suppression of such media by mainstream outlets. Unless a report is on free speech and/or censorship in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country discussed.
By Paul Fromm ∙ May 5, 2018
Paul Fromm on free speech and the 2021 election. Paul Fromm, a pro-free speech advocate in Canada, gives a fantastic speech (one hour 10 minutes) about the attack on free speech in Canada, which is spearheaded by the "woke" liberal government of "President" Truedeau. Freedom in Canada is being rapidly eroded, and it is amazing…
By CODOH ∙ April 29, 2018
Activist lawyer Bruce Leichty says he was notified in writing April 19 that he will not be prosecuted for an arrest for criminal trespass to which he was subjected during a Kansas conference on "Mennonites and the Holocaust" held March 16-17 for which Leichty was registered. At the same conference, one of two Jewish colleagues…
By Francis Goumain ∙ April 16, 2018
The capacity of the media to poison seems infinitely superior to that of any chemical agent. In the Skripal case, the Western public does not even ask for proof of guilt, since suspicion alone is sufficient: 1 – Russia is the enemy of the neo-conservatives, so she is one of the bad guys. 2 – The…
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 24, 2018
Books? Oh, yes, BOOKS! I remember books. Books bin bery good to me, with apologies to Chico Escuela. But I am, today, the richest man in the world, and books are, metaphorically, but the acorn from which my mighty empire grew, and grew and grew, and today books command far less than one percent of…
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 9, 2018
Ironically, it was around March 6, 2017 that the Washington Post first proudly printed its new slogan at the top of its front page: Democracy Dies in Darkness. Ironic because it was on that very day that Bezos’s first and still by-far-largest enterprise, Amazon.com, expunged over 155 history books in three languages and both formats…
By David Merlin ∙ March 8, 2018
The case Taylor v. Twitter may determine the matter. A case with far-reaching implications for the rights of the public to internet access has been filed in San Francisco. At stake is the public's right to say or see what they want versus the unrestricted power of internet corporations to refuse service to unpopular clients. Read more The…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 27, 2018
Throughout the Middle Ages and well into the Renaissance, respectable opinion held that Emperor Constantine had, sometime early in the Fourth Century AD, given his sovereignty over Rome and much of Italy to the Christian Pope of his day, Sylvanus, with the intent that this sovereignty should devolve, as time went on, to pope after…
By Ken Meyercord ∙ February 26, 2018
Censorship can take many forms. There’s the government censorship we associate with socialist regimes (a notable exception being Israel, which has been under military censorship for its entire existence). Take Cuba, for instance, which exercises tight control over the access its citizens have to the internet. We are encouraged to attribute this restriction to the…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ February 20, 2018
In 2016, CODOH lost its key member and founder. Bradley R. Smith, ironically on his birthday, Feb 18, in the morning after battling with cancer for nearly eight years, died. He was a unique collaborator, and revisionist; in fact, during much of his life he directed CODOH and made the big decisions as to where…
By David Merlin ∙ February 16, 2018
The most determined assault on Internet freedom of speech in the English-speaking world is underway in the UK, led by Prime Minister Theresa May and her Home Secretary Amber Rudd. "Governments and technology companies can make the internet a safer place by collaborating to prevent the circulation of terrorist propaganda," Amber Rudd has said. The Home Secretary made…
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