The federal government needs to find a balance between its attempt to regulate foreign digital giants and public concerns of over-surveillance of the freedom of speech on the internet, a House Committee heard on Monday. On Nov. 3, 2020, the Liberal government introduced Bill C-10, the first reform to amend the Canadian Broadcasting Act since…
Bill to Regulate Internet Should Sustain Traditional Media and Avoid Infringing Free Speech, Heritage Committee Hears
Our Tech Minders and the Future of Public Discourse
Commentary Both Apple and Google have deplatformed Parler, a social media app widely used as an alternative channel for group communication. Amazon soon joined this effort by denying access to cloud services hosting Parler content. Other service providers apparently followed suit, constricting and perhaps exterminating Parler from among the options available to consumers. Parler was…
Freedom of Speech Slipping Away
Commentary As the new Biden-Harris administration assumes power, the most basic American freedom of speech and expression is under unprecedented threat. For the first time ever, I am concerned about my freedom to do my work, to run a policy institute addressing issues of culture, race, and poverty from a conservative perspective. Technology—the internet—which was…
Why the Left Has to Suppress Free Speech
Commentary Let us begin with this fact: The left always suppresses speech. Since Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, there has been no example of the left in control and not crushing dissent. That is one of the important differences between liberal and left: Liberalism and liberals believe in free speech….
Online Censorship Cancels the Right of Free Speech
January 16, 2021
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Commentary There is an astonishing trend afoot, and if something isn’t done to stop it in its ugly tracks, your right to freely express an opinion is in jeopardy. President Donald Trump may be the most reviled person in the United States right now, but the moves to silence him in the public square—and others…
Will Good People Stand By While Censorship Threatens America?
Commentary “You Americans think your system of government is so special,” chided the Ghanian student in my advanced constitutional law seminar at Columbia Law School. “It works more or less the same way in Ghana—except that even as children we knew not to ask what had happened to the other half of our class following…
Fear and the Freedom to Speak
Commentary 2021 will be a year of big decisions. With the pandemic raging and the political landscape offering no certainty, the world teeters on the precipice of the unknown more acutely than at any time since the Cold War. At this pivotal moment it is crucial to mitigate the powerful influences conspiring against our mental…
I’m Sounding the Alarm: PRC-Style Censorship Has Arrived in the United States
Commentary Last week, I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building. Not on Jan. 6, the day of the election fraud protest announced by President Donald Trump, but on Jan. 5, the day before. I stood next to my U.S. House representative, Jim Baird—a Vietnam veteran who has earned two Purple Hearts, a…
Twitter Permanently Bans Trump; Why Do Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Harry Reid Get a Pass?
Commentary Twitter explained why it decided to permanently ban President Donald Trump: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them—specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter—we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Trump gave a…
Poland Proposes Bill to Protect Freedom of Speech on Internet
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced that Poland will introduce laws to protect freedom of speech on the internet, while denouncing Big Tech for stifling free speech on social media platforms. The criticism came after prominent social media companies banned President Donald Trump’s accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Morawiecki on Wednesday wrote on…
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