This is a must! The UW’s purchase of KPLU was a very sad move , an effort to undermine the diversity of listeners and need for local programming rather than the NPR feed. KPLU is very different, featuring Jazz and new programs built here along the sound.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Why Bertrand Russell was wrong about atheism
I wish folks like Bertrand Russell would stop blaming all religion for the bad things about Christianity and Islam. Religions are a lot more divers than Americans seem to understand and, I suspect, no better and no worse than any of the other aspects of organized human behavior. What is bad is evang[...]
February 17th, 2016 - 1:50 am § in Misc.
CENSORSHIP: Why the UW Needs a blog
The only source of pubic discussion for UW faculty is a listserv run by the AAUP. That listserv is terribly important because of the historic devotion of the AAUP to free speech. The AAUP listserv is an antique. Many faculty think the listserv is private. That is not so. Since the list[...]
February 7th, 2016 - 11:35 pm § in Misc.
FREE SPEECH REMOVED FOR ARAB LEGISLATOR IN ISRAEL
During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu said he would promote the bill that would require 90 votes in order to expel Knesset members for “unseemly behaviour”. Netanyahu announces bill to remove lawmakers from Knesset over visits to relatives of alleged Palestinian attackers. Patr[...]
This post is Illegal (in China)
In China, you can go to jail for photoshopping the president Caricatures of Xi Jinping as a steamed bun, mustachioed man, and Nazi are strictly verboten.[...]
October 21st, 2015 - 3:54 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Academic Free Speach
THE BLAZE: College Professor Writes Column Confessing Her ‘Hate’ for Republicans — University of Michigan supports her right of free speech. Communications professor Susan Douglas wrote a column titled “We Can’t All Just Get Along.” She said, “In our era of polarization, one par[...]
October 12th, 2015 - 4:14 am § in Politics
Chavez Goes to Heaven on Columbus Day
CHaVEZ NUESTRO QUE ESTaS EN LOS CIELOS capitulos I y II[...]
October 7th, 2015 - 10:20 am § in Misc.
How Does a Corporate State Control Its Media?
China Media analysis … Fischer 5 1. Introduction This analysis describes Chinas media system and should give insight in the media situation in China, it includes the historical development of the media system, a DESTEP analysis, a description of the mass media infrastructure and environment[...]
September 13th, 2015 - 1:22 am § in Uncategorized
CHINA: Newspeak from China Inc
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Once again, China’s efforts to regulate cyberspace have been interpreted as restriction of freedom of speech, but such views stem from a misunderstanding based on long-term prejudice. On Wednesday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued a regulatio[...]
The Hypocrisy of the AAUP Listserv
Tomorrow they will be gone! Academics read. Most citizens associate academics with free expression, reading and discussing what has been written by colleagues from a day ago or even a year ago. Many citizens also worry that speech on campus is censored, not by the right but by the left. [...]