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Commentary: Does the First Amendment protect a right to discriminate?

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to open the door widely to businesses being allowed to violate anti-discrimination laws. If the court rules that the First Amendment protects the right of business owners to discriminate — based on claims of freedom of…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Say no to censorship! Renew civic space

The United States has an alarming problem: civic negligence. The signs of civic decline and decay are all around us – threats of extremist violence, book bans and legislative efforts to restrict honest discussions of history in schools. Renewing schools as civic spaces will require ending punitive testing policies to…

Tribune News Service

‘I believe literature is in peril’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie comes out fighting for freedom of speech

As the BBC prepares to air her hard-hitting Reith Lecture, the celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun talks about truth, trans rights and our ‘misogyny-drenched’ planet. Plus: read an extract

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I give thanks for freedom of speech

Give me the right to speak freely, and I'll defend yours. Those who disengage are the real threats to democracy

Salon

Novak Djokovic fires back at “fake” accusations as he slams loss of “freedom of speech”

Novak Djokovic missed both the Australian and US Open tournaments this year, as well as events in Miami and Indian Wells, over his decision not to be vaccinated

Daily Mirror

Restrictions On Public Functionaries’ Right To Freedom Of Speech? SC Reserves Order

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on whether restrictions can be imposed on a public functionary's right to freedom of speech and expression. Read on for details:

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NL Baithak: Interact live with Team NL

An independent media platform is important to us. We think this is so for most people who value democracy and freedom of speech. It is with this belief that we launched the Newslaundry experiment of Pay To Keep News Free in 2014.

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Jailed Iran Activist Escalates Hunger Strike, His Brother Says

A jailed Iranian freedom of speech campaigner who is on a hunger strike and "in critical condition" will start refusing water after being denied medical leave, his brother said Saturday. Hossein Ronaghi, 37, was arrested days after speaking out against a bloody crackdown on protests that erupted across Iran in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

India urged to improve its human rights record at the UN

UN member states ask India to protect minority rights and freedom of speech, but New Delhi defends its rights record.

Al Jazeera

US sanctions Iranian foundation that funded bounty on Salman Rushdie

‘The United States condemns such incitement and the attack on Rushdie in the strongest terms as a blatant assault on freedom of speech and an act of terrorism’

The Independent UK

Government plans to overhaul espionage laws 'risk interfering with human rights'

The National Security Bill “goes too far” and puts freedom of speech at risk, a group of MPs and peers has said

Wales Online

Editorial: What freedom looks like online: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act makes a lot of sense

The Supreme Court has chosen to review a case challenging the law that governs freedom of speech on the internet. A bad ruling would chill expression online and simultaneously prevent private social media companies from setting standards and moderating content to create civil communities — all in the Orwellian name…

Tribune News Service

In Idaho, we’re seeing how freedom of speech is being curtailed around abortion

In red states, women’s options and speech are being dramatically constrained by the misogynist laws that have sprung into effect since the reversal of Roe v Wade

The Guardian - US

Constitution Bench to check if greater curbs can be imposed on Ministers’ speeches

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta accepted that a public functionary should be more guarded in speech than an ordinary person

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Iran Steps Up Activist, Journalist Arrests in Protest Crackdown

Iran is stepping up arrests of activists and journalists in a crackdown against civil society as anti-regime protests rage nationwide, activists say. Twenty journalists have been imprisoned since the protests erupted earlier this month over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested by the country's notorious morality…

Reuters

Tunisian journalists denounce president's law on prison terms for false information

Tunisia's president on Friday decreed a law imposing prison terms for spreading false information or rumours online, a move immediately denounced by the main journalists' union as an assault on freedom of speech.

Al Jazeera

Mass firing at UAE newspaper raises censorship concerns

The closure of Al Roeya reflects the limits set on freedom of speech and local media in the UAE.

The Conversation

Supreme Court to revisit LGBTQ rights – this time with a wedding website designer, not a baker

A simmering, difficult, and timely question returns to the Supreme Court this fall: What happens when freedom of speech and civil rights collide?

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The Conversation

Gorbachev and glasnost: how his fragile legacy of free speech has been destroyed by Putin

Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world. His policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) gave ordinary citizens the opportunity to exercise real political freedoms, including freedom of…

Radio France Internationale

'Caméra Libre': a French plan to foster freedom of speech for muzzled filmmakers

France is to help filmmakers from countries where freedom of speech is under threat with a new residency programme that will support a dozen directors each year.

The Conversation

Corruption in South Africa: new book sets out how ruling ANC lost the battle

One of the greatest benefits of South Africa’s democracy is freedom of speech and publication. Mpumelelo Mkhabela’s book, The Enemy Within, is the latest in a cascade of publications over the last decade that record corruption and theft by leading politicians in the country’s ruling party.

The Guardian - UK

UK police asking officers to disclose any personal ties with news reporters

Freedom of speech groups raise over clampdown, which only came to light by accident

WEKU

Exiled writers reflect on freedom of speech in America in light of Rushdie attack

For dissident writers fleeing persecution overseas, the United States has long been a safe haven, a place where freedom of expression is tolerated and, even, valued.

The Independent UK

Jake Paul called out for ‘freedom of speech’ defence of Andrew Tate

‘I don’t roll with Andrew Tate but I roll with freedom of speech,’ Paul wrote

The Independent UK

Jake Paul attracts backlash for defending Andrew Tate following his social media ban

‘I don’t roll with Andrew Tate but I roll with freedom of speech,’ Paul wrote

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