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Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’
Sunday Revelation: San Francisco to Ban Male Jews, Will Not Solve Budget Crisis
Lloyd Schofield, and his supporters, have until April 26 to gather 7,200 valid signatures to ban male circumcision under age 18. Their website is www.sfmgmbill.org. The measure would make it “unlawful to … to circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicl[...]
China’s Ministry of Truth
Minitrue: Delete Parodies of Jack Ma’s 996 Comments CHINA Digital Times, reports: The following censorship instructions were issued to the media by government authorities. The China Digital Times obtained the leaked text from an issuing body whose name has been omitted to protect the source. All[...]
China Touts Restriction on Fress Speech
China’s propaganda arm, The Global Times, brags that China’s “continuously improving management over the internet” is becoming a trend in other countries and regions. The Times says “the US is losing a major front to China in the new cold war,” as a “a[...]
If you see this man, turn your back on him.
Max Misch is a white supremacist who harassed Vermont State Rep. Ruqaiyah “Kiah” Morris “with so many racist messages that she resigned.” Then he showed up at her press conference after the state attorney general said he wouldn’t be prosecuted because his actions fell within f[...]
What Should Acosta Do IF He is Allowed Back?
Trump apologists say that Jim Acosta was impolite even if Trump behaved like a clown. They also argue that escalating the discussion to Hitler is too easy. PK, Trump is not Hitler. The American Don is not Hitler anymore than he is Duterte or Mussolini or Franco or Peron. Trump may be closer to[...]
Freedom of speech is not an academic value.
Whether it is a department, a college, a dean, a provost, a learned-journal editor, it is the business of the university to silence voices, not to license them indifferently. Like everyone else these days, I’ve been reading and thinking about what’s happening on campuses when invited speakers ar[...]
Can China Replace Hollywood?
China’s Qingdao Movie Metropolis, dubbed “Chinawood”, aims to become the global capital of film production. © Wang Zhao, AFP | The Qingdao Movie Metropolis was inaugurated on Saturday, April 28, on China’s east coast. Text by Guillaume GUGUEN In the field of new technologie[...]
Net Neutrality Survives
Senate Approves Overturning FCC’s Net Neutrality Repeal Several Republicans joined Democrats in voting to overturn the FCC’s controversial decision. But the measure has little chance of success in the House.[...]
The Last Three Newspapers
“No one except the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and now probably the Washington Post has come up with a digital product that really in any significant way will replace the revenue that is being lost as print newspapers lose both circulation and advertising,” said Buffett as he fielded[...]