Cuba flirts with free speech
• ft.comCuba is using the internet to experiment with toning down its political censorship in a sign that a glimmer of glasnost has arrived on the Communist-run Caribbean island.
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Here's What Content Facebook Will Restrict With Its New Community Guidelines
• motherboard.vice.comFacebook just updated its community guidelines to clamp down on misconduct on the site, which means that scrolling through your news feed will be that much less interesting, but probably a little bit safer; .....
FCC Rules Designed to Stifle Internet Political Speech
• http://www.prisonplanet.com,Kurt NimmoNet neutrality is a classic Trojan horse
FCC to Seize Entire Internet, Cable Spectrum Under 400-Page "Rules"
• http://www.prisonplanet.com,Kit DanielsFCC cherry picking existing laws for cable, radio & broadband to regulate Internet
FAA Backpedals After Sending Letter Ordering Man to Remove Drone Footage From YouTube
• Photography Is Not a CrimeAfter an aviation safety inspector in the FAA's Tampa office sent a legal notice to a man regarding his "use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (aka drone) for commercial purposes" earlier this week for posting drone footage to YouTube
Because It's Not OK
• Simple JusticeIn National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie in 1977, the protection of the First Amendment was for unpopular speech. After all, popular speech needed no protection. It was not to say that the speech was worthwhile, or
Chris Hedges Greatest Speech Ever Made
• https://www.youtube.com,Chris Hedges Greatest Speech Ever Made
San Diego man with no criminal record faces life in prison for flashing gang signs on Facebook
• RawstoryA San Diego man with no criminal record is facing a possible life term in prison for flashing gang signs in some Facebook photos. Aaron Harvey and 14 other men, including the rapper Tiny Doo, were charged under an obscure California law
Emails From Kiev: Free Speech Vanishes, Total Media Thought Control;
• MIKE SHEDLOCKUS Radar System Falls Into Rebel Hands?
2 deadly shootings within hours in Copenhagen; 5 wounded
• Associated PressA shooting at a free speech event featuring an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and a second shooting hours later outside a synagogue left two dead and five police officers wounded in Copenhagen
The Cowardly and Despicable American Presstitutes
• http://www.paulcraigroberts.org-Paul Craig RobertsFebruary 5, 2015. There is a brouhaha underway about an American journalist who told a story about being in a helicopter in a war zone.
Jason Rezaian and the crackdown on journalism
• http://america.aljazeera.com,by Stephen KinzerFrom Tehran to Paris to Washington, the worldwide repression of press freedom intensifies
Rapper Tiny Doo facing long prison sentence over lyrics
• CNNSan Diego-based rapper Tiny Doo has already spent eight months in prison, and faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted under a little-known California statute that makes it illegal to benefit from gang activities.
France begins jailing people for ironic comments
• The Iran ProjectA 16-year-old high school student was taken into police custody on Thursday and indicted for "defending terrorism." His alleged crime? He posted on Facebook a cartoon "representing a person holding the magazine Charlie Hebdo,
Facebook Censorship: What They're Not Telling You
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonIt's not just about 'fake news stories'
A look back at the US publisher imprisoned over James Joyce and gay novels
• RawstoryIn 1957, publisher Samuel Roth spent his 63rd birthday in federal prison. His appeal denied by the US Supreme Court, he would end up serving every day of his 5 year sentence. The crime? He had placed "obscene" books (and flyers advertising these
Federal Attorney Warns Negative Posts Against Islam Could Get You Prosecution & Imprisonment
• Freedom OutpostBarack Obama's Attorney for Tennessee Bill Killian and Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI's Knoxville Division, want Americans to know if you say something negative towards Islam or Muslims, they may imprison you.
President Obama & Prime Minister Cameron Explain How They Are 'Fixing' Freedom Of...
• http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler DurdenPresident Obama & Prime Minister Cameron Explain How They Are 'Fixing' Freedom Of Speech - Live Feed.
France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments...
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Glenn GreenwaldFrance Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration
After Free Speech Rally, France Cracks Down on Free Speech
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Daniel McAdamsWell that didn't take long. Just three days after the French government hosted dozens of foreign leaders in a "unity rally" to defend free speech in the wake of last week's shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, France has begun arresting it
A 'Free Press' and Double Standards
• https://consortiumnews.com, By John V. WalshThe Western reaction to last week's terror attacks in Paris has been rife with double standards as U.S. and European politicians and pundits reinvent themselves as purists on freedom of the press and compound the hypocrisy by ignoring the longstand
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01-16-15 -- John Bush - James Babb - Patrick Wood (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Program Date:John Bush provides and update from the Ross Ulbricht trial - James Babb handed out flyers in front of the courthouse where the Ross Ulbricht trial was being held and gives us a report - Patrick Wood talks about his new book, Technocracy Rising:
Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression
• Associated PressPope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.
France arrests 54 for defending terror; announces crackdown
• Associated PressFrance ordered prosecutors around the country Wednesday to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism, announcing that 54 people had been arrested for those offenses since the Paris terror attacks.
Obama's Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy
• http://www.counterpunch.org, by JAMES BOVARDRepublicans are condemning President Obama's failure to attend the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris as is omission was the equivalent of a hate crime.
France Follows Freedom of Speech Rally With Crackdown On Free Speech
• Jonathan TurleyThe French government is doubling down on criminalizing speech in the name of free speech after the massacre. France has reportedly made dozens of arrests of people who glorify terrorism and engage in hateful or antiSemitic speech.
In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Glenn GreenwaldDefending free speech and free press rights, which typically means defending the right to disseminate the very ideas society finds most repellent, has been one of my principal passions for the last 20 years: previously as a lawyer and now as a journa
Je Suis Donald
• http://www.lewrockwell.com,There has been a global outpouring of support for free speech (more precisely, speech without consequence) in the wake of a recent tragedy…well let's have Time Magazine tell the tale:
"Why the Ross Ulbricht / Silk Road case matters to your digital freedom. #FreeRoss
• Thunderclap.it - George DonnellyHelp to spread this message by posting to all your social media sites...
Watch: Ross Ulbricht's Mother Speaks Out in New Silk Road Documentary
• Wired.ComFor those interested in crime and privacy on the Internet, it could be one of the most important cases ever to go before a jury.
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