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Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech in European (and Other) Democracies, with Prof. Jacob Mchangama

How does European free speech law differ from American free speech law, when it comes to "hate speech," blasphemy, and… The post Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech in European (and Other) Democracies, with Prof. Jacob Mchangama appeared first on Reason.com.

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"The Future of Censorship Is AI-Generated"

An interesting article by Jacob Mchangama and Jules White (Time); an excerpt: The material of a long dead comedian is a good example of content that the world´s leading GenAI systems find "harmful." Lenny Bruce shocked contemporary society in the 1950s and 60s with his profanity laden standup routines. Bruce's…

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Bing Chat and ChatGPT-4 Reject Queries That Mention Kike Hernandez

Thanks to Jacob Mchangama, I learned that Bing Chat and ChatGPT-4 (which use the same underlying software) refuse to answer queries that contain the words "nigger," "faggot," "kike," and likely others as well. This leads to the refusal to talk about Kike Hernandez (might he have been secretly born in…

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"Denmark and Sweden's Commitment to Free Speech Is Wilting in the Face of Quran Burnings"

Here's an excerpt from the article, by free speech historian Jacob Mchangama, writing in Time: On July 30, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that the government will seek to enact legislation for "special situations where other countries, cultures, and religions could be insulted, potentially resulting in significant negative…

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E.U. Law Threatens Free Speech, Online Groups Say

The E.U.’s Digital Services Act will encourage censorship around the world and even in the U.S.

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UN Human Rights Council Calls for Punishing Blasphemy (In This Instance, Quran Burning)

Jacob Mchangama (of Justitia, and now a Research Professor at Vanderbilt) has a detailed item about it; an excerpt: In 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt, serving as the first Chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was involved in a bitter dispute about the limits of free speech. Stalin's Soviet…

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E.U.'s Digital Services Act Threatens Americans' Free Speech

Online platforms should resist binding us all to the rules of censorship-happy jurisdictions.

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Sexting chatbot ban points to looming battle over AI rules

Paris (AFP) - Users of the Replika "virtual companion" just wanted company.Some of them wanted romantic relationships, sex chat, or even racy pictures of their chatbot.

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Jacob Mchangama: "Privileging Blasphemy Norms Over Open Inquiry Plays Into the Hands of Religious Fundamentalists"

A broader perspective on the Hamline controversy.

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Musk's free speech absolutism 'a fantasy'

Paris (AFP) - The limits of Elon Musk's self-professed "free speech absolutism" were laid bare, critics said, by his decision to ban rapper Kanye West from Twitter over his latest anti-Semitic outburst.

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U.K.'s Online Censorship Bill Causes Far More Harm Than It Attempts To Prevent

The innocuously-titled Online Safety Bill threatens citizens' rights to privacy and to speak freely.

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Has America Given Up on Free Speech?

A review of Mchangama's "Free Speech."

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Europe Escalates the Threat to Online Free Speech

While Americans debate what should be allowed on social media, the EU wants government to decide.

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Speaking Freely Through the Ages

As long as there have been laws, there have been attempts to silence people.

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Jacob Mchangama: How Hate Speech Laws Punish Minorities

In the new book Free Speech, the Danish activist defends radical self-expression from Socrates to social media.

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Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media," and Milton's Curse

I much enjoyed Jacob Mchangama's podcast on the history of free speech (Clear and Present Danger), so I'm particularly pleased to see his book is now out: s I asked him if he could pass along a guest post related to the book, and he graciously agreed: According to Columbia…

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