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 Roberto Hernández ∙ April 7, 2017
From the very first words of the report at Syracuse.com about the “odd” assignment high-school students from Oswego County high schools were given, which was to defend the so-called “ Final Solution ” in the Nazi Era, it was to be expected that there would be complaints. I also might add that this is not…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 6, 2017
One night in late December I dream that I’ve been gassed at Auschwitz. In the dream, as I become aware of myself inside the gas chamber, the gassing itself is already over. I see myself sitting naked in the center of the floor; the room around me choked with naked cadavers heaped to the ceiling….
By David Merlin ∙ April 3, 2017
Dear Washington Report- You have been one of the foremost voices of rationality and fairness regarding US policies in the Middle East. As such, you should be aware of a developing threat to to free speech and the expression of what can be called in the United States “minority views” toward the oppression of Palestinians….
By Brother Nathanael Kapner ∙ March 29, 2017
A view into the way Holocaust revisionists are treated by the orthodoxy who promote the idea of no inquiry and no free exchange of ideas regarding the Holocaust question.
By Brother Nathanael Kapner ∙ March 27, 2017
A video regarding the Amazon banning of hundreds of books many of them revisionist works that won't be now able to be bought online at this major bookseller.
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 21, 2017
I’ve posted articles here positing that Amazon’s enormous contracts with the US intelligence community drove Amazon to the business decision to delist all of CODOH’s offerings on its Web site. I have to admit the idea is a bit of a stretch, but no big deal at all in our brave new world of alternative…
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…
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