Category Archives: Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc.

Hey, we were just discussing censorship! From the Huffington Post: Patricia Jannuzzi, a religion teacher at Somerville’s Immaculata High School, made headlines last week after she argued that gays “want to reengineer western civ (sic) into a slow extinction” as … Continue reading →

#Shirtstorm quickly became a controversy, not about hostile workplaces for women per se, but instead about what are legitimate forms of debate. (If you don’t know what #Shirtstorm is, Phil Plait summarizes it here.) Although I saw several good articles … Continue reading →

Dear The Stranger, Free Speech is a thing – even for off-duty cops. Unless you have real evidence that this person is letting his politics interfere with his work, or spending time on Facebook when he’s on the public clock, … Continue reading →

Andrew Charlesworth at The Conversation nutshells: Whilst visiting a national park in North Sulawesi wildlife photographer David Slater had his camera stolen – not by a thief, but by an inquisitive crested black macaque. The resulting selfies are causing controversy … Continue reading →

In comments, Gin and Whiskey pointed out this gem from a Harvard Law Review article about censorship, “The Brave New World of Social Media Censorship.” Note 8: …see also Svetlana Mintcheva, post to Free Expression Network (Feb. 7, 2010) (in … Continue reading →