Tag: free speech
Into the Twilight Zone
If there was any remaining doubt that the western world we once knew, that which was a beacon of individual rights and bastion of...
Food for thought – The love and hate of free speech
Like many people I have great appreciation for the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting...
Debate unwelcome – on the closing of the western mind
Ex-Muslim, Maryam Namazie, has been banned from campus by the students' union which is concerned she might "insult" Muslims and "incite hatred."
This correspondent has...
Our opposition to speech suppression
Paying tribute to the 80s rock band, the XYZ draws together and comprises a diverse and 'motley crue'.
We are male and female, urban and...
Free Speech under attack in Egypt, not at the ABC
Right now journalists and media commentators all over the world are expressing their shock, anger and outrage at the prison sentences handed to three...