The critics of media consolidation are frauds. They are not defenders of free speech–they are dangerous enemies of that freedom.
Free Speech
Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters
The question is not whether fleeting expletives are indecent, an issue that individuals have a First Amendment right to decide for themselves. It’s whether the Constitution grants government the power to trample on freedom of speech, using non-objective laws to dictate …
Net Neutrality, the FCC and Comcast
Would the Seattle Times acquiesce to a “printing press-neutrality” law that dictated how it should run its presses?
Lobbying, Free Speech and The First Amendment
Charles Krauthammer makes a trenchant argument in defense of a perennial whipping boy: Everyone knows the First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. How many remember that, in addition, the First Amendment protects a fifth freedom...
Islamic States and Thought Crimes: The Thug’s Ideal
What deeper attack on civilization, freedom, the mind, and human life could be possible than to propose the establishment of thought crimes in an American university?
Free Speech or Censorship: Their Is No Middle Ground
Americans face a choice: free speech or censorship. There is no middle ground.
FCC Violates Free Speech on Principle
In this headlong rush to expand the government’s authority over the media, no one has paused to consider whether the government should have such authority in the first place. No one has noticed that the very existence of the FCC is a flagrant violation of the right to f…
Advertising is Good Medicine
Advertising, of prescription drugs or anything else, is a form of free speech that should never be restricted, unless it’s fraudulent.
Silencing Opposition to Greens on Global Warming
The petition I have referred to has no financial support from Exxon or any other company in the oil, coal, or natural gas industries. Can the same thing be said about governmental support of The Royal Society and the endless “studies” dedicated to advancing the Gree…
Reflections on Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons: A Panel Discussion
On April 11, 2006, the University of Southern California Objectivist Club sponsored an event titled “Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons: A Panel Discussion” which was attended by more than 300 people. Many critics on the Left grudgingly uphold the right...
Religious Terrorism vs. Free Speech
Ayatollah Khomeni’s attack on Salman Rushdie and his publishers represents religious terrorism. Americans oppose the Ayatollah’s death-decree, but our government is doing nothing to combat it.
The Cartoon Jihad: Free Speech in the Balance
A battle for Western freedom is being fought overseas. The specific object of the battle is merely a handful of cartoons. The outcome of the struggle, however, will reverberate for years.
Love Thy Enemy: The Twilight of Freedom of Speech
To fathom our government’s contemptible treatment of a handful of unbowed journalists, you must see the roots of that treatment in the moral ideal Christianity bequeathed the West. In the face of the intimidation and murder of European authors, film makers and...
Professor Ward Churchill, The First Amendment and Free Speech on Campus
Because the comments he made shortly after September 11 have come to light, obscene comments in which he vilifies the World Trade Center victims as “little Eichmanns” and lauds their killers as “humanitarians,” Professor Ward Churchill has...
Kerry’s Demand for Censorship
John Kerry has gained control of the Bush campaign and has, psychologically and strategically if not yet literally, won the presidential election. While Kerry’s own party systematically decimates Bush’s competence and character for daring to actually use...
Censorship and Slander: CBS’s “The Reagans” Gets Moved from TV to Cable
Now that the made for TV miniseries about Ronald Reagan’s presidency called The Reagans has been moved from CBS to Showtime the rewriting of history about the controversy has already begun. According to the left, the fact that CBS moved the miniseries to...
Racial Censorship and the Witch-Hunt Against Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh’s comment on ESPN regarding Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Donovan McNabb was: “I don’t think he’s been that good from the get go. I think what we’ve had here is a little of social concern from the NFL. The media has...
Campaign Finance Limits Violate Free Speech
Earlier this year President Bush risked the lives of American military personnel to end Iraq’s tyrannical regime–a dictatorship that not only restricted the actions of Iraqis but also silenced them from speaking their mind. It is ironic that President Bush...
Rush Limbaugh and Racial Censorship
It is one of the sad signs of our times that a furor was created because Rush Limbaugh expressed an opinion as to why a particular quarterback seemed to him to be over-rated. In his view, it was because the powers that be in professional football were anxious to have...
An Air(wave) of Confusion over Censorship
The First Amendment chains the government, not the individual.
Free Speech Protects Profit-Makers, Too
For a century after the Civil War, blacks in America’s South were subjected to shameful acts of oppression and violence. Deprived of voice and vote, they had no choice but to suffer mutely as they were scurrilously attacked. Two California-based lawsuits...
Letter to Janeane Garofalo: Confusing Free Speech with Nazism
Dear Janeane, You are an idiot of breathtaking proportions. This is incontrovertible based on your recent statement that said: “Hate mail bothers me less than what happens to the Dixie Chicks. There are boycotts and guys driving tractors over their CDs –...
First Amendment Bull: Tim Robbins vs. Free Speech
Lately, it seems as if almost every week some leftist celebrity finds the time and energy to publicly demonstrate their gross misunderstanding of a simple two-word phrase: “free speech.” Although few people expect them to be literate enough to read the...
Nike, Free Speech and the Constitution
Nike v. Kasky presents the Supreme Court with an opportunity to undo some of the constitutional damage resulting from the so-called “commercial speech doctrine,” the Court’s test for deciding whether self-interested speech is entitled to First...
Dixie Chicks in the Frying Pan, but Free Speech Isn’t
Dixie Chicks lead clucker Natalie Maines has fans wanting to kick her in the tail feathers. Cumulus Broadcasting is even banning the Chicks from all its 260 stations. Some have suggested, however, that the Cumulus decision violates Maines’ First Amendment...
Shackling Nike: Supreme Court Should End the Distinction Between Political and Economic Speech
Nike is an innocent victim of this Court’s rigid insistence on maintaining the commercial speech doctrine.
“Hate Crime” Legislation is an Assault on Free Speech
If images of people being persecuted for “thought crimes” strike you as the stuff of science fiction — or, at worst, something that happened when communism was at its height and jackboots were storming Europe — get ready for a wake-up call. It...
Permission to Speak: The End of Free Speech
Two recent events show the real meaning of two popular ideas: “hate speech” regulations and campaign finance controls. The real meaning of both is the end of free speech. The first story comes from Canada, where “hate speech” laws are already...
The Canadian Government vs. Free Speech
There are two principles that taken together are the cornerstone of freedom. One is that an individual has a right to his life. The other is that an individual has the right to speak uncoerced. Today, the 2nd right is under threat in Canada. According to Ray Girn,...
Ayn Rand Institute’s “In Moral Defense Of Israel” Released By Candian Government
IRVINE, CA–After a three-day detention, Canadian Customs released today a shipment of newsletters from the Ayn Rand Institute titled “In Moral Defense of Israel.” Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, said “The...
Anti-Capitalist Demonstrators and Freedom of Speech
Last weekend’s anti-capitalist demonstrations in Washington were every bit what most observers expected them to be: sessions in idiocy, lunacy and general mayhem. As expected, portions of the city were significantly impacted by the demonstrations and despite...
Censorship in Canada
The University of Toronto Objectivist Club is having an event this Sunday entitled “The Moral Case for Supporting Israel”. The club ordered from the Ayn Rand Institute 350 complimentary copies of a pamphlet entitled “In Moral Defense of...
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