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The Man Who Shouts Fire in a Crowded Theater
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute
In the Vice-Presidential debate, the Democratic candidate Tim Walz used shouting fire in a crowded theater to justify limitations on free speech. Ironically, he resembles …
Don’t Let the ‘Infaux Thugs’ Close Down Debate
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute
Today’s censors wield cudgels with the word ‘information.’ Content they don’t like they call ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation.’ The justification is fake. The protection is faux protection. …
John Kerry and the Circuitous Assault on Free Speech
by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute
Mere words cannot restrain our aspiring censors from weaponizing their power to silence dissent. Enemies of the First Amendment vow to “hammer it out of …
New Hate Speech Laws Scrapped in Ireland
by David Thunder at Brownstone Institute
The Irish Government has announced it is scrapping its plans to introduce significant updates to Ireland’s existing hate speech laws, as there is not enough support for the proposed …
The Right to Speak Evil
by David Bell at Brownstone Institute
Words can harm. The childhood saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is obviously untrue. Words bring ruin and despair, drive people …
Lockdowns Codified a World of Violence
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
During the misnamed and mostly preposterous debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a moderator fact-checked Trump’s claim that crime is up. In contrast to his claim, …
German “Citizens Council” Wants to Criminalize Disinformation
by Robert Kogon at Brownstone Institute
A German “Citizens Council” has submitted recommendations to the German Ministry of the Interior calling, among other things, for the potential criminalisation of “disinformation.” The council was …
Political Pointillism
by Thomas Buckley at Brownstone Institute
Thanks again to the California Globe for running this piece. You can visit the website at: https://californiaglobe.com/
If you happen to be at the Art Institute of Chicago, you can see Georges Seurat’s …
The Australian Government Reboots the Misinformation Bill
by Andrew Lowenthal at Brownstone Institute
This week Australia’s Labor Party reintroduced its misinformation and disinformation bill. I did a deep dive into the bill last May. Among its many flaws, the biggest is …
ACMA’s Role in Australia’s Censorship Campaign
by Rebekah Barnett at Brownstone Institute
Last year, the Australian Government’s proposed legislation to combat misinformation and disinformation was shot down in flames after a strong backlash over the threat to free expression, and the unfairness …
On August 27, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement confirming what the Twitter Files, Murthy vs. Missouri, and many others had long claimed – that the Biden administration aggressively pushed to censor First Amendment-protected speech on social media, in …
Each revelation of the Biden administration’s censorship regime tells a familiar story: government authorities, inextricably intertwined with corporate interests, bludgeoned social media companies into purging dissent. They used regulatory code (Section 230), the power of the Intelligence Community, and financial …
The insistence of regimes in the West that they must control public messaging has meant dramatic changes in the freedom citizens have on social media and more generally. Media is more centralized than ever, and what we can say and …
As I explained in a previous post, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s companion lawsuit Kennedy v. Biden has been consolidated by the court into our Missouri v. Biden case. Based upon documents we obtained on discovery, the court recently found that …
This article was co-authored by Carole H. Browner, William I. Robinson, Aditi Bhargava, Lazlo Boros, Hugo Loaiciga, Roberto Strongman, Arvind Thomas, Anton Van Der Ven, Gabriel Vorobiof, and Patrick Whelan.
IntroductionA group of senior University of California professors was …