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 Guillaume Fabien ∙ April 2, 2012
The CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France) is the closest thing France has to the United States Jewish lobby’s flagship organization AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee). Early each year, for example, the CRIF summons – more than it invites – to a solemn ceremonial dinner most of the country’s government, starting with…
By Ken Meyercord ∙ October 3, 2013
I just published an article in which I argue Global Warming "deniers" are likely to be accorded increasing respect in the years to come as the mean global temperature has ceased to rise and is not likely to for a couple of decades (http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/10/the-climate-change-bug/). It occurs to me that, if I'm correct, this new respectability…
By David Merlin ∙ September 12, 2013
Peter Cassells, ChairpersonHolocaust Education Trust IrelandClifton HouseLower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2Tel: +353 1 6690593Email: [email protected]http://www.hetireland.org 29 August 2013 Dear Chairperson Cassells- First, congratulations on your election as new Chairperson of HETI. In November 2010 the Holocaust Education Trust held a conference entitled International Conference on Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Since I am what you refer…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 8, 2013
Yesterday's op ed by Daniel Ellsberg (of 1971 Pentagon Papers fame) provided a stunning retrospective on what Ellsberg calls the "different America" that dealt with him 40 years ago vis-a-vis the America that NSA Leaker Edward Snowden faces today for having committed "crimes" very similar to those committed by Ellsberg. The effect of the comparison…
By Jett Rucker ∙ January 1, 2012
This Holocaust revisionist has a confession to make, and it’s worse than anything to which Bradley Smith confessed in his best-selling (?) Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist: I have become a grudging admirer of Deborah Lipstadt. Yes, the Deborah Lipstadt who in 2001 with the able assistance of her publisher Penguin-Putnam defended successfully against the…
By Jett Rucker ∙ May 10, 2012
The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists has put up 14 videos on their Web site to convey the talks given at their conference "Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech in the Internet Era" in Berlin last November. Most of the talks are aimed at suppressing both of the first-named items. While only two…
By George Bissell ∙ March 24, 2012
Hello Bradley, I am responding to your complaint about the advertisement "Inconvenient History: The Power of Taboo," that ran in the last issue of The Anchor that came out on March 10. We have not had an issue come out since then because of Spring Break and our conference so no issues have passed since…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 21, 2012
George Bissell, Editor-in-ChiefThe AnchorRhode Island CollegeProvidence, Rhode Island[email protected] 21 March 2012 Mr. Bissel: Earlier this month we submitted a print ad to run in The Anchor that read: "Inconvenient History: The Power of Taboo," along with a URL that leads to the Website of Inconvenient History: A Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Inquiry. The ad…
By CODOH ∙ March 16, 2012
Benjamin Welch, Editor-in-Chief –The UNC MirrorUniversity of Northern Colorado Dear Mr. Welch: I would like you to know that we very much appreciate the fact that the UNC Mirror has agreed to run our announcement for "Inconvenient History: The Power of Taboo." Clicking on the link your readers are taken to the Website of "Inconvenient…
By David Merlin ∙ October 21, 2015
German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas has announced that Facebook must obey German law even if free speech is curtailed: "Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred are crimes in Germany, and it doesn't matter if they're posted on Facebook or uttered out in the public on the market square… Germany has…
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