Anthony Comstock’s decades-long censorship campaign ended up turning him into a laughingstock.
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Charlie Kirk is symbolic of how university campuses have become central to contemporary culture and politics.
The First Amendment might complicate plans to prosecute the people who sent up to 500,000 anonymous messages in November calling Black people ‘slaves,’ among other hate speech.
Americans agree that democracy requires freedom of speech. But a large minority also thinks it’s acceptable to bar certain subjects or speakers from public debate.
Ontario’s Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act threatens to undermine university autonomy, and could serve to censor critical thinking and dissent on campuses.
Our city streets are covered with posters, signage, art and graffiti. How can these public images support diversity and justice in cities?
In Ontario and in Alberta, university decisions about balancing free expression and protection from harm will be an important test of recent university policy shifts pertaining to free expression.
The decisions made by Facebook through its content moderators and Oversight Board have significant implications for the exercise of worldwide freedom of expression and speech.
First seen in Prague in 1980, a form of public protest and free expression has spread throughout Hong Kong and around the world.
Despite the headlines, the biggest concerns of students on college campuses are not politics, discrimination or free expression.
Differences of opinion are the lifeblood of universities and essential to advancing knowledge. But some universities are giving in to intimidation by cancelling events with controversial speakers.
After violence in Charlottesville, internet firms are erasing bigoted content. But should private companies serve as unaccountable regulators and be responsible for policing complex social issues?
In his lifetime Anthony Burgess was a strong advocate of free expression. A forthcoming book promises to bring his political writing back into focus.
Cracking down on extremism online won’t solve the problem of extremist violence, will inevitably censor speech that’s important to protect and risks harming political dissidents and democracy itself.
Are speech codes and free-speech zones silencing speech on college and university campuses?
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science, University of Guelph; Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, Criminology, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
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Director, Centre for Free Expression & Distinguished Visiting Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Modern Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Research Scientist, Maurice & Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cities and Urbanism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy, Brandeis University
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Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, College of Arts, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, Political Science, University of California, Riverside
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Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor, Education, Niagara University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Melbourne
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Research Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, Vanderbilt University