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 Jett Rucker ∙ June 29, 2016
The German and the Iranian governments—God bless ‘em both—have gotten together to exchange art exhibits as part of an effort to promote comity between the two peoples, if not their respective governments. So, (some) art from the recently repressive, theocratic regime in Iran has encountered a bar as blasphemy in the democratic, liberal, tolerant regime…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ June 28, 2016
Italy’s parliament has been discussing a bill to criminalize Holocaust denial for the past 10 years. Other laws are now in effect; public incitement to racial hatred and such things are penalized, but Holocaust denial was not criminalized like it is in 14 other countries in Europe until now. Italian Parliament The first step to pass…
By David Merlin ∙ June 22, 2016
The Economist25 St Jame's StreetLondon SW1A1HG[email protected] Dear Editor We are writing to thank you for your Jun 2nd article Free Speech Under Attack a bit late, (we get our copy of the Economist as a hand-me-down.) It is worth noting that the current wave of censorship received a boost in 1990 with the passage of the Gayssot Act in France, Law No. 90-615…
By David Merlin ∙ June 21, 2016
To: The Electronic Intifada From: David Merlin June 21, 2016 Most people tend to see Free Speech as a bulwark of democracy. But not the people at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They view free speech as a danger and they are particularly worried about the internet. $20,000,000 is being spent by the Museum to send out the…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ June 5, 2016
Here's an update on our Campus Project. I have been reporting that we've been successful at placing ads in some of the most important student newspapers on top university campuses in the US. This is not an exaggeration. It's tempting to hope that we are actually entering a new era of free speech on campus and free inquiry…
By David Merlin ∙ May 12, 2016
Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. 501 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20001-2111 [email protected] Media Tel: 202-682-7732 May 6, 2016 Dear Neighbor to the North- We are writing to you to support the application for a visa by the French comedian and social critic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala. Mr. M’bala M’bala is an…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ May 5, 2016
Once in a while I like to go to a couple of local bookstores to see if I get lucky and find something good to read. A novelty. There are often nice surprises. So about two years ago I saw this novel in the shelf at one of my local bookstores, it had an image,…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 18, 2016
By Richard A. Widmann. The softbound edition of Inconvenient History Volume VII is now available! Our seventh softbound annual contains 536 pages of cutting-edge scholarship that topples misleading myths of contemporary history by revealing the inconvenient truth of these matters. Inconvenient History Volume VII contains all the content from our 4 issues from 2015. You…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ April 16, 2016
Many of our readers might be aware that CODOH has an outreach program in campus universities. This program was started by our founder Bradley R. Smith; he named it The Campus Project. The main objective of the campus project was to promote, through advertising in student newspapers, a free discussion of the Holocaust, to oppose…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ April 7, 2016
A few weeks ago I received good news from our friend Germar: CODOH was now able to re-start The Campus Project. We had enough funds to buy ads in student newspapers and run the campus project. This time it must be different. Bradley Smith is no longer with us, and only he was able to do…
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