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New laws pending in Wisconsin and North Carolina would require public universities to punish students who disrupt campus speakers. But these laws would do more to hinder free speech than protect it.
It’s a new constitutional question for the internet age: Should the president be allowed to block someone on Twitter?
What legal rules must colleges and universities follow when it comes to speech on campus? And, beyond legal requirements, what is a school’s obligation to protect – or limit – free speech?
Student protest has been in the political spotlight since Trump’s election. Todd Gitlin, former president of Students for a Democratic Society, shares his perspective on protest in the 60s and now.
No-platforming is turning supposedly ‘critically minded’ events into adolescent cheerleading sessions.
Algorithms can’t sort out the truth from the dross. People must become more social media savvy.
During the war, fear of being undermined by the enemy sparked restrictions on freedom of speech. As a result, thousands of Americans were prosecuted.
The government has not adequately explained what it is hoping to achieve by changing the wording of Section 18C.
Independent booksellers are increasingly seeing their role as, necessarily, an active, educative, political one.
How do we know what we think we know? Accuracy, care and rigorous method gets us somewhere there, especially on issues like racism.
Recent developments at the United Nations and the G-20 suggest that the well-known human rights to privacy and freedom of expression may soon be formally extended to online communications.
After witnessing a streamed suicide, users could sue for emotional harm. But it’s tricky to prove – and even trickier to hold Facebook accountable.
UC Berkeley had a duty to protect the free speech of right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and those protesting his appearance. But what are the limits of free speech when it comes to campus safety?
Neither Galaxy Research nor the Institute of Public Affairs think-tank discussed the most interesting data they garnered from polling on free speech and reform to Section 18C.
Now, more than ever, the US press must shine a light on the workings of the Trump administration.
The darknet, like the open internet, is not immune from illegal activity. But many darknet users are there in search of ‘hacker ethics’ values such as privacy and free speech.
Fleet Street is up in arms against a law they say will kill investigative journalism. That simply isn’t true.
Americans enjoy a right to free speech, and some public figures really exercise that right. The Constitution might not protect them the way they think it does, though.
Are we seeing Orwell’s dystopian vision of 1984 coming to fruition?
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Executive Dean and Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
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Professor Emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Law and Humanities, Queen Mary University of London
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Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Programmes Manager and Research Fellow, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University
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Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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University Research Professor of Education, University of Kentucky