An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
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In the court of public opinion, Anthony Albanese’s rejection of the up-yours attitude of the man he labels an arrogant egotistical billionaire is Likely to resonate with many Australians.
It is difficult to argue that online comments can amount to criminal offences that threaten public order.
In 2015, I saw Jewish and Muslim students forge a set of group agreements so they could dialogue on the Middle East conflict. Initiatives like this or a ‘Semester in Dialogue’ program are promising.
Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
A rhetoric scholar says Columbia University President Nemat Shafik fared much better than her predecessors at a hearing about how her school was handling antisemitism on campus.
AI chatbot makers’ restrictive use policies hinder people’s access to information.
Nicolás Maduro cracks down on civil liberties as Venezuela prepares for its presidential election.
New research shows that even after Facebook made changes to stem the tide of dangerous pandemic misinformation, some accounts continued to thrive.
Online extremism is a unique challenge – terrorists use methods that can’t be captured by standard content moderation. So, what can we do about it?
TikTok has mobilised its vast user base to contest a possible US ban, plus it could challenge it in court as an infringement of people’s free speech.
These cases have asked the justices to consider how to apply some of the most sweeping constitutional protections – those of free speech – to an extremely complex online communication environment.
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
The police presence needed to ensure free expression costs taxpayers money.
Writers festivals navigate the fraught frontier between social media’s echo chambers of outrage and the civilised public debate of the public square. What’s the way forward in this heated atmosphere?
A private group chat of Jewish creatives was leaked because some were organising against pro-Palestinians. Was it ethical to do so?
Ghassan Hage has been sacked by Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Foundation due to his trenchant criticism of Israel’s war. It’s just the latest in an ongoing culture war in Germany.
Content moderation by automated systems could be a form of prior restraint.
University codes of conduct support their mission to educate. But it’s not easy to balance those codes with the values of free speech, as the resignation of a prominent university president shows.
The Supreme Court will hear five cases this term that will examine the nature of online discussion spaces run by social media platforms.
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