Cuba flirts with free speech

03-23-2015 • ft.com

Cuba is using the internet to experiment with toning down its political censorship in a sign that a glimmer of glasnost has arrived on the Communist-run Caribbean island.

Here's What Content Facebook Will Restrict With Its New Community Guidelines

03-17-2015 • motherboard.vice.com

Facebook just updated its community guidelines to clamp down on misconduct on the site, which means that scrolling through your news feed will be that much less interesting, but probably a little bit safer; .....

FCC Rules Designed to Stifle Internet Political Speech

03-15-2015 • http://www.prisonplanet.com,Kurt Nimmo

Net neutrality is a classic Trojan horse

FCC to Seize Entire Internet, Cable Spectrum Under 400-Page "Rules"

03-15-2015 • http://www.prisonplanet.com,Kit Daniels

FCC cherry picking existing laws for cable, radio & broadband to regulate Internet

FAA Backpedals After Sending Letter Ordering Man to Remove Drone Footage From YouTube

03-13-2015 • Photography Is Not a Crime

After an aviation safety inspector in the FAA's Tampa office sent a legal notice to a man regarding his "use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (aka drone) for commercial purposes" earlier this week for posting drone footage to YouTube

Because It's Not OK

03-11-2015 • Simple Justice

In National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie in 1977, the protection of the First Amendment was for unpopular speech. After all, popular speech needed no protection. It was not to say that the speech was worthwhile, or

Chris Hedges Greatest Speech Ever Made

03-08-2015 • https://www.youtube.com,

Chris Hedges Greatest Speech Ever Made

San Diego man with no criminal record faces life in prison for flashing gang signs on Facebook

03-06-2015 • Rawstory

A San Diego man with no criminal record is facing a possible life term in prison for flashing gang signs in some Facebook photos. Aaron Harvey and 14 other men, including the rapper Tiny Doo, were charged under an obscure California law

Emails From Kiev: Free Speech Vanishes, Total Media Thought Control;

02-26-2015 • MIKE SHEDLOCK

US Radar System Falls Into Rebel Hands?

2 deadly shootings within hours in Copenhagen; 5 wounded

02-14-2015 • Associated Press

A shooting at a free speech event featuring an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and a second shooting hours later outside a synagogue left two dead and five police officers wounded in Copenhagen

The Cowardly and Despicable American Presstitutes

02-07-2015 • http://www.paulcraigroberts.org-Paul Craig Roberts

February 5, 2015. There is a brouhaha underway about an American journalist who told a story about being in a helicopter in a war zone.

Jason Rezaian and the crackdown on journalism

01-26-2015 • http://america.aljazeera.com,by Stephen Kinzer

From Tehran to Paris to Washington, the worldwide repression of press freedom intensifies

Rapper Tiny Doo facing long prison sentence over lyrics

01-24-2015 • CNN

San Diego-based rapper Tiny Doo has already spent eight months in prison, and faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted under a little-known California statute that makes it illegal to benefit from gang activities.

France begins jailing people for ironic comments

01-23-2015 • The Iran Project

A 16-year-old high school student was taken into police custody on Thursday and indicted for "defending terrorism." His alleged crime? He posted on Facebook a cartoon "representing a person holding the magazine Charlie Hebdo,

Facebook Censorship: What They're Not Telling You

01-23-2015 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson

It's not just about 'fake news stories'

A look back at the US publisher imprisoned over James Joyce and gay novels

01-22-2015 • Rawstory

In 1957, publisher Samuel Roth spent his 63rd birthday in federal prison. His appeal denied by the US Supreme Court, he would end up serving every day of his 5 year sentence. The crime? He had placed "obscene" books (and flyers advertising these

Federal Attorney Warns Negative Posts Against Islam Could Get You Prosecution & Imprisonment

01-18-2015 • Freedom Outpost

Barack Obama's Attorney for Tennessee Bill Killian and Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI's Knoxville Division, want Americans to know if you say something negative towards Islam or Muslims, they may imprison you.

President Obama & Prime Minister Cameron Explain How They Are 'Fixing' Freedom Of...

01-17-2015 • http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden

President Obama & Prime Minister Cameron Explain How They Are 'Fixing' Freedom Of Speech - Live Feed.

France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments...

01-17-2015 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Glenn Greenwald

France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration

After Free Speech Rally, France Cracks Down on Free Speech

01-17-2015 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Daniel McAdams

Well that didn't take long. Just three days after the French government hosted dozens of foreign leaders in a "unity rally" to defend free speech in the wake of last week's shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, France has begun arresting it

A 'Free Press' and Double Standards

01-16-2015 • https://consortiumnews.com, By John V. Walsh

The Western reaction to last week's terror attacks in Paris has been rife with double standards as U.S. and European politicians and pundits reinvent themselves as purists on freedom of the press and compound the hypocrisy by ignoring the longstand