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North Dakota Legislators Consider Bill To Ban 'Sexually Explicit' Material From Public Libraries

"If you don't like a book, don't read it. The First Amendment's guarantee of the freedom of speech and the right to access information has created a beautiful marketplace of ideas in our country," said one ACLU representative opposing the bill.

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Culture Secretary criticises Gary Lineker over comments on Qatar and US racism

Michelle Donelan also distances herself from Jeremy Clarkson's views on Meghan Markle but says she is 'a believer of freedom of speech'

Wales Online

More on Hamline

Over at The Dispatch, I have a new piece on Hamline University and its academic freedom struggles. Here's a taste: In an extremely competitive field, Hamline University is making a bold bid to be the new standard-bearer for universities willing to cast aside principles of academic freedom and freedom of…

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FIRE Files Academic Freedom Complaint With Hamline University's Accrediting Agency

From FIRE's letter sent yesterday to the Higher Learning Commission (which is Hamline's accrediting agency, "a regional accreditation agency that accredits degree granting institutions of higher education that are based in the 19-state North Central region of the United States"): To the Higher Learning Commission: As a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated…

Reason

Commentary: Bookstores are a refuge for freedom of speech while censors on both sides wage battle

Freedom of speech is forever embattled. That is its nature. Easy to assent to in the abstract, the principle becomes more challenging when the speech at issue assails one’s most cherished values. Polls over the years have consistently reflected this dynamic. “Of course I support freedom of speech,” respondents say,…

Chicago Tribune

Dining across the divide: ‘She sees my generation as not being grateful enough for what we have’

They both vote Labour and agree on Brexit – but what about freedom of speech and cancel culture?

The Guardian - UK

TMR 2022: Is the space for civic society shrinking in India?

The civil society in India has shrunk in both size and scope. But who is to blame? What is the role of the media in this phenomenon? Will the increasingly symbiotic relationship between governments and corporations allow for meaningful freedom of speech and action?

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Higher education regulator to make freedom of speech priority next year

OfS expected to gain new powers to regulate freedom of speech issues in England

The Guardian - UK

Call for Papers: Free Speech, Civil Rights & Social Progress

Voices for Liberty: Free Speech, Civil Rights & Social Progress Submission: December 31, 2022 — 5 p.m. EST Priority Deadline Paper proposals must be submitted by December 31, 2022, for full consideration and will be considered after the priority deadline on a rolling basis. All proposals should include a summary…

Reason

Commentary: Does the First Amendment protect a right to discriminate?

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to open the door widely to businesses being allowed to violate anti-discrimination laws. If the court rules that the First Amendment protects the right of business owners to discriminate — based on claims of freedom of…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Say no to censorship! Renew civic space

The United States has an alarming problem: civic negligence. The signs of civic decline and decay are all around us – threats of extremist violence, book bans and legislative efforts to restrict honest discussions of history in schools. Renewing schools as civic spaces will require ending punitive testing policies to…

Tribune News Service

‘I believe literature is in peril’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie comes out fighting for freedom of speech

As the BBC prepares to air her hard-hitting Reith Lecture, the celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun talks about truth, trans rights and our ‘misogyny-drenched’ planet. Plus: read an extract

The Guardian - UK

I give thanks for freedom of speech

Give me the right to speak freely, and I'll defend yours. Those who disengage are the real threats to democracy

Salon

Novak Djokovic fires back at “fake” accusations as he slams loss of “freedom of speech”

Novak Djokovic missed both the Australian and US Open tournaments this year, as well as events in Miami and Indian Wells, over his decision not to be vaccinated

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Restrictions On Public Functionaries’ Right To Freedom Of Speech? SC Reserves Order

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on whether restrictions can be imposed on a public functionary's right to freedom of speech and expression. Read on for details:

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An independent media platform is important to us. We think this is so for most people who value democracy and freedom of speech. It is with this belief that we launched the Newslaundry experiment of Pay To Keep News Free in 2014.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jailed Iran Activist Escalates Hunger Strike, His Brother Says

A jailed Iranian freedom of speech campaigner who is on a hunger strike and "in critical condition" will start refusing water after being denied medical leave, his brother said Saturday. Hossein Ronaghi, 37, was arrested days after speaking out against a bloody crackdown on protests that erupted across Iran in…

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India urged to improve its human rights record at the UN

UN member states ask India to protect minority rights and freedom of speech, but New Delhi defends its rights record.

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The Independent UK

US sanctions Iranian foundation that funded bounty on Salman Rushdie

‘The United States condemns such incitement and the attack on Rushdie in the strongest terms as a blatant assault on freedom of speech and an act of terrorism’

Wales Online

Government plans to overhaul espionage laws 'risk interfering with human rights'

The National Security Bill “goes too far” and puts freedom of speech at risk, a group of MPs and peers has said

Tribune News Service

Editorial: What freedom looks like online: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act makes a lot of sense

The Supreme Court has chosen to review a case challenging the law that governs freedom of speech on the internet. A bad ruling would chill expression online and simultaneously prevent private social media companies from setting standards and moderating content to create civil communities — all in the Orwellian name…

The Guardian - US

In Idaho, we’re seeing how freedom of speech is being curtailed around abortion

In red states, women’s options and speech are being dramatically constrained by the misogynist laws that have sprung into effect since the reversal of Roe v Wade

The Hindu

Constitution Bench to check if greater curbs can be imposed on Ministers’ speeches

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta accepted that a public functionary should be more guarded in speech than an ordinary person

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Steps Up Activist, Journalist Arrests in Protest Crackdown

Iran is stepping up arrests of activists and journalists in a crackdown against civil society as anti-regime protests rage nationwide, activists say. Twenty journalists have been imprisoned since the protests erupted earlier this month over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested by the country's notorious morality…

Reuters

Tunisian journalists denounce president's law on prison terms for false information

Tunisia's president on Friday decreed a law imposing prison terms for spreading false information or rumours online, a move immediately denounced by the main journalists' union as an assault on freedom of speech.

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