“You can’t yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater”…
…says Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi’s faux pas immediately reminded me of this:
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Free speech for Nazis: policies in the US and Europe compared
A NY Times op-ed by K-Sue Park that I critiqued recently called for the ACLU to “rethink” its free-speech defense of Nazi rallies, and to loosen its traditional even-handed defense of freedom of speech as a principle of liberty and … Continue reading →
Paypal removes ban on Jihad Watch
[NOTE: This post refers back to events that were decribed in a previous post.] Paypal, in its infinite mercy (that’s sarcasm, by the way, in case it’s not clear), has decided to reinstate the account of Jihad Watch, previously banned … Continue reading →
Internet free speech threatened
This is a chilling, must-read article. In it, William Jacobson quotes a post he wrote last Friday: …[In the past there have been] attempts to intimidate internet hosting companies and companies that provide internet infrastructure to cut off access to … Continue reading →
Free speech for me and not for you
All too predictably, there’s a call in the NY Times for the ACLU to “rethink” its support of freedom of speech for Nazis. It’s from a lawyer named K-Sue Park, who works as “a housing attorney and the Critical Race … Continue reading →
It just might be a good time to revisit this quote from Milan Kundera on circle dancing
I think you’ll see why. It’s from the Czech author Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which he wrote in the late 1970s: Circle dancing is magic. It speaks to us through the millennia from the depths of … Continue reading →
The same rules for each side?
Alan Dershowitz believes that even partisans must apply the same rules to each side: Now that it is President Trump who is being targeted, my partisan Democratic friends are vociferously rejecting these neutral civil liberties arguments, because they do not … Continue reading →
On Charlottesville
I’ve been mulling over what to write about the recent events in Charlottesville, and I think the best way to start (I’m a bit pressed for time today) is to link to this post by William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection. … Continue reading →
James Damore explains his firing
Here’s what he writes: I was fired by Google this past Monday for a document that I wrote and circulated internally raising questions about cultural taboos and how they cloud our thinking about gender diversity at the company and in … Continue reading →
Google engineer who wrote wrongthink memo is Summersed
I don’t need to go into all the details, because if you follow this link you can get up to speed on them. But the gist of the story is that a senior engineer at Google wrote an internal memo … Continue reading →
Facial recognition systems at the railway station?
Here’s a little tidbit: German authorities have launched a six-month test of automatic facial recognition technology at a Berlin railway station, which the country’s top security official says could be used to improve security in the future. More than 200 … Continue reading →
The law and Charlie Gard: parental rights in the UK vs. the US
As expected, the announcement has come of Charlie Gard’s death: Charlie Gard, the baby whose fate was the subject of a protracted court battle and made headlines around the world, has died, his parents have said… They abandoned their legal … Continue reading →