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 David Merlin ∙ March 20, 2017
One of the big reasons that Amazon has pulled Revisionist books is that the government is taking fresh steps in the fight against hatred of Jews by formally adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. The new and greatly expanded definition on anti-Semitism reads as follows: Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 20, 2017
Bradley Smith, on 28 April 2010 (5.35 min), responds to an article written by Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the USHMM, published in USA Today. Here she makes a fundamental distinction between those of us who are Jews and those who are not.
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 18, 2017
The advent of the printing press, and of literacy among the faithful, impelled the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church to issue what came to be called an Index, or the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. This Index was a list of (published) works that the faithful were abjured by His Holiness from reading. These works were…
By David Merlin ∙ March 18, 2017
Freedom House National Headquarters 1850 M Street NW, Suite 1100 Washington District of Columbia 20036 UNITED STATES Phone: 202-296-5101 Fax: 202-293-2840 [email protected] Dear Freedom House, I am writing to call your attention to a serious threat to internet free speech coming from two quirky English laws. The first law is Section127(1) of the…
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 16, 2017
There’s a ray of hopeful light coming today from London’s Telegraph newspaper: an article from columnist Stephen Pollard titled “Why I, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Think Anti-Semites Should Be Allowed on YouTube.” It’s a voice of reason coming from a quarter from which one would not expect to hear it (and one often hears…
By Douglas Christie ∙ March 14, 2017
Free speech lawyer Douglas Christie appeared on "Crossfire" after the first Zundel trial, in 1985, and was aggressively questioned by panelists Ian Mulgrew, Kathleen Mahoney and George Oake.
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 13, 2017
They’re everywhere—probably even in the camera and microphone of the laptop on your kitchen table (yes, it has both, even if you didn’t know it). Oh, wait! That would be the NSA, or the FBI, or … yes, Amazon. They’re all the same thing these days, you know. But never mind spying. Everyone is doing…
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 12, 2017
We might have seen this coming as long ago as 2010, when Amazon Network Services dropped its new client, Wikileaks, just as soon as the redoubtable Senator Joseph Lieberman cast a disapproving glance at it. In fact, now I think about it, I did sense this coming. And here it is, full-blown less than seven…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ March 12, 2017
" Amazon joins the ranks of book burners For twenty years, I have been commenting on how the themes and plot of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian tale of book-burning Fahrenheit 451 are coming to pass. My initial article on this subject was entitled, “How Fahrenheit 451 Trends Threaten Intellectual Freedom.”[1] My friend, Bradley Smith initially published…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ March 12, 2017
By Richard A. Widmann. For twenty years, I have been commenting on how the themes and plot of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian tale of book-burning Fahrenheit 451 are coming to pass. My initial article on this subject was entitled, “How Fahrenheit 451 Trends Threaten Intellectual Freedom.”[1] My friend Bradley Smith initially published it on the original…
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