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Silence Me Before I Kill Again
This is not Islamist Iran or communist Cuba or some tin-pot military dictatorship. Our government does not simply round people up. It cannot deprive people of their liberty without a legal basis to do so, and it has no authority to punish people merely for expressing political views, no matter how odious. Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, constitutional law, free speech, hate speech, media bias
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Inhuman Rights
The HRC has no legal authority. It passes nonbinding resolutions on what it decides are human rights abuses and can only make recommendations to the General Assembly. Nevertheless, its resolutions enjoy the UN imprimatur, and it can legitimize barbarities simply by ignoring them. If a dictator can claim in the international media that the HRC has passed no resolutions against him, his job of maintaining the status quo and lobbying against intervention in his country’s affairs becomes that much easier. Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, free speech, islamism, sovereignty, terrorism, united nations
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His Royal Fairness
Who will decide what constitutes “diversity of viewpoint” or “public interest obligations”? Federal regulators, of course. Continue reading
The New Book Banning
It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away. Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, consumer safety, education, free market, literature, regulation
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Lights Out on Liberty
Today’s multicultural societies tolerate the explicitly intolerant and avowedly unicultural, while refusing to tolerate anyone pointing out that intolerance. Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, education, free speech, islamism
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Obama's Durban Dalliance
Does an anti-Semitic conference deserve U.S. participation of any kind? Continue reading
