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 Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1997
Ever since the publication two decades ago of his pioneering revisionist study, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Northwestern University teacher Arthur Butz has been something of an embarrassment for the highly regarded private educational institution. Recently the Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering has again come under attack for presenting his dissident view…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1997
A German government censorship agency has “indexed” as “dangerous to youth” translations of two leaflets published by the Institute for Historical Review. At the request of Germany’s Interior Ministry, the “Federal Review Agency for Literature Dangerous to Youth” (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften) on October 17 and 18, 1996, “indexed” unauthorized Internet translations of two IHR…
By Keri Welham ∙ April 23, 2005
The former Canterbury University academic who resigned over a “book-burning” scandal says American universities will not employ him for fear of having “some sort of Holocaust-denier” on their staff. Senior history lecturer Thomas Fudge left Canterbury in 2003 after his article in a university journal, revisiting the furore about a student's highly contentious thesis questioning…
By Bernhard Schaub ∙ July 1, 1997
Bernhard Schaub, was born in 1954 in Bern, Switzerland. He taught history and German at a private school in Zurich until January 1993, when he was fired without notice. This termination was a consequence of his 1992 book, Adler und Rose, on the history of German-speaking Central Europe. Because passages in this book call wartime…
By Mario Consoli ∙ April 1, 1996
An Italian Voice for Freedom Now in its 17th year of publication, an impressive Italian journal, l’Uomo libero (“The Free Man”), has been a consistently intelligent and outspoken champion of free speech and intellectual inquiry, and a staunch defender of Europe’s cultural heritage. Editorial director is Mario Consoli, who is also a frequent contributor. The…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
Few North American writers have come under more sustained attack for outspoken and often unorthodox views than Doug Collins, an acclaimed British-born Canadian author and journalist who writes a popular column for the North Shore News of North Vancouver, British Columbia. Every journalist understands that criticism comes with the job. But the relentless campaign to…
By Douglas Collins ∙ September 27, 1995
The Press Council Decision [From the North Shore News, Oct. 22, 1995] Here's a shot from the battle front and the British Columbia Press Council decision that “in part” upholds the complaints made by my Jewish friend Lionel Kenner concerning a column I wrote two years ago. The piece was headed “The Story Keeps Changing,”…
By Douglas Collins ∙ April 2, 1995
Doug Collins served with the British army during the Second World War, and then with the British control commission in postwar occupied Germany. An award-winning journalist, he has worked for several Canadian daily newspapers, and is the author of several books. His presentation at the Tenth IHR Conference was published in the Fall 1991 Journal….
By Marvin Stark, Norman Swartz ∙ February 23, 1995
As we recently reported in these pages (“Revisionist Global Computer Outreach,” July-August 1995 Journal), Jewish organizations such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center regard the growing impact of Holocaust revisionism through the Internet worldwide computer hookup as a grave threat to their vital interests. Confirming this, a front page article in western Canada's leading Jewish community…
By Robert Faurisson, Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
For writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of mass killings in German gas chambers during World War II, two French revisionist scholars have been ordered by a Paris court to pay fines of $3,000 each. The offending 90-page book, written by Prof. Robert Faurisson, is entitled Reponse a Jean-Claude Pressac sur le problème…
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