Free Speech

Fairness Doctrine 2.0

Dictating content under the threat of government reprisal is censorship, and censorship always involves a violation of property rights.

The Censorship Smokescreen

The Censorship Smokescreen

For the past week, our politicians have been busy constructing the foundations of censorship in America. And worse: They have been doing so unanimously. Censorship is being promoted across the political and cultural spectrum, from Al Gore and Joe Lieberman to John...

A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and “Naming Names”

A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and “Naming Names”

The following statement originally appeared as an advertisement, placed by Elia Kazan in the New York Times, April 12, 1952.In the past weeks intolerable rumors about my political position have been circulating in New York and Hollywood. I want to make my stand...

The “Sensitive” Road to Censorship

The “Sensitive” Road to Censorship

During the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, people of that court replaced saying the word "nigger"(as used by former LA police detective Mark Fuhrman) with "the 'N'-word." Last year, Merriam-Webster was asked by certain people to omit the said racial epithet from their...

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