Commentary In mid-May, True North columnist Andrew Lawton reported that the London Public Library in Ontario refused to rent space for an annual public lecture organized by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS). Founded in 1992, SAFS is a Canadian academic organization with a mandate to “defend freedom in teaching, research and scholarship.”…
Social Media Bosses Who Fail to Remove Misogynistic Content Should Face Jail, Say Peers
Bosses of social media companies could be jailed if they fail to remove “misogynistic” content, under an amendment to the Online Safety Bill. The amendment—backed by a cross-party group of lords led by former Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan—would mean companies that fail to remove abusive misogynistic content and ban repeat offenders would face fines, while…
America’s Powerful Intellectual Class Finds ‘Joy in Making Us Obey and Be Compliant,’ Warns Scholar
May 15, 2023
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America’s intellectual class has been given so much power by the public that their misuse of such power is threatening the fundamental freedom of speech in the country, says scholar and author Tom Harrington. “It’s absolutely remarkable how easily we’ve gone from free speech to asking, ‘How can I make my way around the censorship that’s…
Free Speech Is on Its Deathbed in Academia—But Students Will Save It
May 10, 2023
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Commentary While in high school, I dreamed of attending a university where my right to say what I believe would remain sacred. I therefore enrolled at the University of Chicago because of its advertised commitment to unfettered academic inquiry. Upon attending, however, I quickly realized that the famed values upon which the school had been…
China Ranks 2nd Worst in Latest World Press Freedom Index
May 6, 2023
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China joined other communist states—Vietnam and North Korea—at the very bottom of the latest Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) World Press Freedom Index released on May 3, which was World Press Freedom Day. China ranked in 179th place on this year’s index of 180 countries and regions, one spot above North Korea and one place lower than…
Ireland Government’s Hate Speech Bill Promotes ‘Thought Crime Legislation’
Irish authorities are pushing forward a bill that will make it a crime to disseminate and possess content deemed to be hateful—a development Elon Musk warns is a threat to free speech in the country. The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 (pdf) seeks to “amend the law relating…
With Dissent Now Criminalized, Free Speech Faces a Big Chill
Commentary Americans’ right to think and speak freely has for years been under heavy assault. The propagators of political correctness slowly but surely chipped away at open discourse, pressuring dissenters from prevailing ruling class orthodoxy to speak in euphemism and self-censor lest they be branded uncouth if not bigoted. Apparently not content with the results…
Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?
April 12, 2023
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Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…
[PREMIERING at 10AM ET] Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?
April 12, 2023
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Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…
Worst Universities for Free Speech Identified by Academic Freedom Group
A group that has been documenting speakers’ protests and academic cancelations across campuses for nearly two decades has identified which universities have had the most “chilling effect” on free speech. Since 2006, the group Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF) has recorded examples of protests, no-platforming, sackings, and resignations that have resulted in the restriction of…
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