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Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts
Monday, August 19, 2024

Law student leads protests in Kenya

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Socioeconomic unrest and youth protests are roiling Kenya, and President William Ruto seems unable to get a grip on the discontent. Freelanc...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Student media combat criminalization of speech

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The criminalization of journalism is the worry at the heart of the Julian Assange case, as a UK court mulls the possibility of his extraditi...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

War protests expose double standards in higher ed

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Ted Eytan CC BY-SA 4.0 I've refrained from commenting on the Israel-Hamas war, specifically and especially on the eruption of conflict,...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Boston flag scrap heads to Washington

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Three flagpoles at Boston City Hall ( photo by Daderot CC0 1.0 ) A Boston First Amendment flag-flying case is Supreme Court bound. The cas...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Knowles, Metroka enter the fray on free speech today

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My friend and colleague Dr. Helen J. Knowles , SUNY Oswego Political Science , has just published, as co-editor with Dr. Brandon T. Metroka ...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Informe costarricense mixto sobre libertad de expresión: tribunales presionan por transparencia; ley se mueve contra discurso de odio, desinformación

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[English translation by Google.] Desde la perspectiva norteamericana, Costa Rica ha sido aclamada durante mucho tiempo como un modelo d...
Monday, November 18, 2019

It's not just whistleblower law; First Amendment public employee-speech doctrine is in disarray

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You might have heard some wrangling in the news about whistleblowers.  They're all the rage, lately, even here and there on this blog....
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Saturday, November 9, 2019

Radiolab ponders journalists who would undo what they wrought

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Radiolab tackled the "right to be forgotten," U.S. style, back in August, and I missed it.  Hat tip at On the Media , which just ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Everyone's talking First Amendment

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So this one was the vision of what happens if things don't go the way [philosopher Richard] Rorty wants. And in his view, Bill Clinto...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Conn. high court hears argument after non-dismissal of Sandy Hook parent suit against Alex Jones

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As reported in my Sandy Hook update a couple of weeks ago, today was the day for Connecticut Supreme Court oral arguments over a discovery ...
Monday, September 23, 2019

EU frets over Privacy Shield adequacy, and NGO insists, emperor still naked

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The Commission of the European Union is reviewing the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield framework for conformity with the General Data Protection Reg...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Antitrust regulators need to up their game to meet challenges of media convergence, Argentine researchers write in UNESCO paper

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Published by UNESCO, a new policy paper from Argentine researchers Martín Becerra and Guillermo Mastrini warns that antitrust regulation ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Lewinsky calls for online civility, will speak twice in South Coast Massachusetts this academic year

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Goodman as Linda Tripp, Molly Shannon as Lewinsky, in 1998 ( SNL ). President Clinton's escapades were good business for SNL , which...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Abraham & White would limit further extension
of First Amendment as tort defense

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In a new article , Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White , University of Virginia Law, argue against the further extension of the First ...
Friday, August 16, 2019

LatAm NGOs propose model of internet platform self‑regulation consistent with human rights

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NGOs working on the project, from the report. Now published online and open for comment are "Contributions for the Democratic Regu...