Salman Rushdie, in first TV interview since near-death attack, says US faces ‘bad moment’ for free speech

Mr Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed in 2022 while preparing to deliver a lecture on free speech in New York ... a new memoir that will hit shelves on Tuesday. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted ... Read More

Free Speech

Freedom of speech is a bellwether ... access to information and free expression are two sides of the same coin, and both have found tremendous accelerators in the Internet and other forms of ... Read More

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Apr. 5, 2024 — A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and ... Read More

It’s high noon at the high court for internet free speech. What’s next for social media users?

At issue: Whether US states can regulate the way social media ... is turning out to be the most consequential yet for free speech on the internet.” ... Read More

TikTok Free Speech

BOSTON -- A federal judge found a school district did not violate a school board member's rights by firing her after discovering her history of creating and promoting homophobic, transphobic and ... Read More

Internet Speech

Texas H.B. 1181, if allowed to go into effect, will impermissibly burden access to protected online speech by requiring users to verify their ages before accessing legal adult content online. The law ... Read More

Supreme Court hears major cases on free speech, laws regulating social media

The justices' answer could be critical to setting the terms of online speech for generations and fundamentally alter how businesses and consumer experience the internet. During oral arguments in ... Read More

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Internet Speech

In a clear victory for free speech, the Supreme Court has announced that it will not hear the government’s appeal of a ban on the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), the federal law that would ... Read More

Free Speech

Pro-Palestine student activists disrupted an honors convocation at the University of Michigan on Sunday, interrupting President Santa Ono’s speech and ... Subscribe for free to Inside Higher Ed’s ... Read More

Free speech is vital to democracy, but what happens when free speech is weaponized?

However, the good is being upstaged and corrupted by brutish and even criminal abuses of free speech. The Golden Rule ... politicians weaponize the internet, social media, and now artificial ... Read More