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From Jacob Mchangama (The Bedrock Principle), a leading scholar of free speech history and of international speech restrictions: Last week,… The post "Reporters Without Borders' Stance on US-Brazil Policy Undermines Press Freedom" appeared first on Reason.com.

America stands alone in valuing and protecting free speech.

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…

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…

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

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…

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

A broader perspective on the Hamline controversy.

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