I had somehow missed the fact that an extraordinary law called C-16 passed Canada’s Senate in mid-June of 2017 by overwhelming numbers, sliding the country further down the slippery slope of the tyranny of hate speech laws: Canada’s Senate passed … Continue reading →
I think this might be as good a time as any to spotlight this comment by commenter “Kyndyll G.” It was made in early July, and it’s a discussion of conservatism and its relation to tyranny: I would not presume … Continue reading →
A new survey about college students’ attitudes towards free speech has come out (1500 students were polled): While “hate speech” is odious, as long as it steers clear of well-established exceptions to the First Amendment…it is constitutionally protected. The survey … Continue reading →
Commenter “Montage” wrote on the recent de Blasio thread: I read the [de Blasio] interview for a more complete picture and context is important. The key is when he says: “hundreds of years of history that have ELEVATED property rights … Continue reading →
The young man in the following video tells his political change story, and in doing so he describes a process that I think—having contemplated the process of political change myself for about a decade and a half—is the heart of … Continue reading →
…says Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi’s faux pas immediately reminded me of this:
Continue reading →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 →
[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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →