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GiveSendGo Is a Home for the Canceled. Is It Incentivizing Hate?
GiveSendGo will back causes deemed too controversial for GoFundMe. But how far is too far?
Novi Zhukovsky
The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on Free Speech
By issuing subpoenas to Times reporters and their families, this administration has once again shown it never really cared about the First Amendment.
Eli Lake
A Letter to the Free-Speech Hypocrite Who Ran PEN America
The organization, founded to defend writers and free expression, published testimony from silenced Jewish and Israeli writers. Its president quit in…
William Kolbrener
I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life.
The world’s largest encyclopedia was overrun by bias and censorship—and pushed me out when I tried to fix it.
Larry Sanger
Letter to the Editor re: ‘I Wrote a Book About Censorship. Then People Tried to Censor It.’
My response to Jacob Siegel’s piece in ‘The Free Press.’
Renée DiResta
In Finland, Promoting Biblical Views Is Now Illegal
Rod Dreher explains how hate speech bans like Finland’s are no longer about protecting rights, but about stamping liberal orthodoxy into law.
Rod Dreher
I Wrote a Book About Censorship. Then People Tried to Censor It.
A day after I published a book on the government-tech control of information, a positive review of it disappeared online. It was the epitome of the very…
Jacob Siegel
Ben Shapiro: Criticism Isn’t Censorship
Calling figures like Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson ‘cowardly’ or ‘unhinged’ isn’t censorship. It’s part of the normal give-and-take of political…
Ben Shapiro
The Campaign to Crush Free Speech in Minnesota
Clashes among ICE, protesters, and politicians are testing Americans’ commitment to open discourse.
Greg Lukianoff
Matt Taibbi: To Protect Free Speech, I’m Suing the Man Who Defamed Me
There’s a difference between censorship, which prevents speech, and seeking restitution for a harmful lie already in print.
Matt Taibbi
In the UK, The Free Press Is Adults Only
A British law intended to protect kids is suppressing debate for everyone.
The Editors
Arrested Again—for Holding a Sign
The UK’s clampdown on free expression snags 75-year-old Rose Docherty—for the second time. Her alleged crime: offering to chat outside a hospital that…
Josh Code
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