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 Kenneth Lasson ∙ January 6, 1998
The recent debate at Johns Hopkins University over whether the student newspaper should have published an advertisement denying the existence of Nazi death camps is more than just an academic flap. At stake are profound questions of how a free society learns the lessons of history and, unique to America, the effect of constitutionally protecting…
By American Statesman ∙ December 18, 1997
HOUSTON — A Holocaust museum has rejected the donation of an advertising fee from Rice University's student newspaper after it printed an ad from a group that doubts the Holocaust occurred. “This money is tainted and its purpose is to deny the murder of millions of human beings, Jews and non-Jews alike, and aims to…
By Fredric U. Dicker, Gregg Birnbaum ∙ November 30, 1997
On Sunday, November 23, 1997, The New York Post printed an article concerning the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). This libelous and misleading article was immediately responded to by CODOH. Our response which has been sent to The New York Post can be found below. Reponse to the New York Post, November…
By Paula Brook ∙ January 11, 1997
For saying 6-million didn't die. How did an extremist B.C. Columnist end up a martyr? “Give me a break.” Peter Speck is pacing briskly between a window and couch in his office at the North Shore News, self-described “Voice of North and West Vancouver since 1969.” The paper that Speck launched and still runs is…
By aaargh ∙ September 21, 1997
Everybody knows revisionism is an abomination. But it exists and it persists. Moral and penal condemnations, vigilance committees, even the laws of the State, nothing works: for the last twenty years, revisionism has not stopped growing. A recent poll shows that 30% of the people in France are ready to accept its basic tenets. They…
By Grant Buckler ∙ September 9, 1997
How big a danger are neo-Nazis and deniers of the holocaust, whether they spread their messages online as they increasingly do, or by more traditional means? They are not “a clear and present danger,” according to the author of a book on holocaust denial, but they are “a clear and future danger” and the time…
By Douglas Collins ∙ July 12, 1997
I | II | III | IV I. Getting set to slay censorship by Doug Collins [May 12, 1997, North Shore News] Tomorrow, your man Doug and this gutsy newspaper go into the history books as the first in Canada to face a “human rights” tribunal. The first in journalism, that is. And I thought…
By David Thomas ∙ July 7, 1997
The following note was appended to an item on the CODOH site: CODOH Comment: This item originally appeared with a statement that the Usenet group to which it was submitted was operated by Nizkor, who “censored” the following material by refusing to post it. A spokesman for Nizkor brought it to our attention that the…
By L.R Beam ∙ January 1, 1997
The Internet, perhaps the last truly free means of information exchange in the Western world, may soon be choked by censorship and governmental controls. The circumscribing of the Net may cause the death of what has become the first people-to-people exchange of ideas and information on a world wide basis. The forces behind this effort…
By Jonathan Mahler ∙ May 17, 1997
New York — David Irving started by carefully baiting his hook and casting his line. The bait was taken by St. Martin's Press, but it managed to squirm free at the last minute. It looked for a moment like Mr. Irving would go home with his bucket empty. Then came another nibble. One can only…
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