“We’re from the government and we’ll have to revoke your blogging license if you keep spreading too much ‘misinformation.’” A few years ago, such a warning would have seemed far-fetched. But recent developments threaten to turn this...
Free Speech
Comedy Central's Editing of the South Park Mohammed Episode is NOT Censorship
Throughout the debate over South Park, various commentators have been extremely sloppy in their use of the term "censorship." That's a real problem, because censorship is a horrible evil, but it's hard to fight if people don't even know what it is.While in other...
“Socialize The Media” Equals Censorship
The reporting of news must be left to the voluntary actions of private individuals–any news subsidy inevitably sets the stage for government control of the press.
“Fairness Doctrine” Equals Censorship
A growing number of "elites," including Bill Clinton, are calling for a return of the "fairness doctrine" to talk radio, a sure indication that Congress and the new President will soon be taking on this issue. Supporters of the "fairness doctrine" are actually evading...
The Indecency of Government-Sanctioned “Decency”
So let me get this straight. When government regulates what can and cannot be said on the Internet, it’s NOT a restriction on freedom of speech — so long as the government claims it’s striving to act in “the public interest.”
Big Government, Not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech
The critics of media consolidation are frauds. They are not defenders of free speech–they are dangerous enemies of that freedom.
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 what we can say and hear on the airwaves.
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 -- to...
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 free speech.
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 Green agenda?
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 of our...
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 resigned as chairman of the...
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 military...
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 Showtime is...
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 been desirous that a black...
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 led...
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...
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