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An open letter published by Harper’s, signed by luminaries including Margaret Atwood and Wynton Marsalis, argued for openness to “opposing views.” The debate began immediately.
Civil rights groups say company did not commit to concrete plan to address hate speech and misinformation
Activisme: De antiracistische beweging wil breken met het verleden, maar heeft geen ideeën voor de toekomst, schrijft John Gray.
Activists say Facebook boss’s decision to leave ‘shooting threat’ up sets dangerous precedent
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
Rima Sghaier is a human rights activist and researcher who works at the intersection of technology and human rights, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. Rima grew up in Tunisia under the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, which lasted for twenty-four years. Although Tunisia was among the earliest countries in its region to connect to the internet (in 1991), its use by dissidents and subcultures led to the government increasingly restricting access to information and communications tools.
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC:
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
UN Special Rapporteur released the preliminary findings of his sixth report on information and communication technology. They include tangible suggestions to internet companies and states whose current efforts to control hate speech online are failing to comply with the fundamental principles of human rights.
The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Zuckerberg’s unsophisticated thoughts on free speech generated a manifesto that can only be called incoherent
Fotograaf Thijs Heslenfeld heeft aangifte gedaan tegen Facebook bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) in Amsterdam, schrijft De Volkskrant . ...
( Note to reader: These are lightly expanded notes for a class I once gave on freedom of speech. The notes are intended to explain the...
Mastodon is completely opposed to Gab’s project and philosophy, which seeks to monetize and platform racist content while hiding behind the banner of free speech. Mastodon remains committed to standing up against hate speech; for example, our new server covenant means we only list servers on joinmastodon.org that are committed to active moderation against racism, sexism and transphobia. The Mastodon community does not approve of their attempt to hijack our infrastructure and has already taken steps to isolate Gab and keep hate speech off the fediverse.
Geert Wilders heeft een halve dag geen gebruik kunnen maken van zijn Twitter-account. Het was een straf van het bedrijf omdat de politi...
Demonstrators cover bodies with stickers to ensure nipples on display are ‘male’, in line with Facebook policy
Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: What if a global media network is impossible?
Kunnen we in het publieke debat te weinig van elkaar hebben? Ja, zeggen twee Amerikaanse professoren, en dat komt omdat de jeugd zo afgeschermd opgroeit dat hun geestelijke gezondheid eronder lijdt.
Regulators need to stop blindly regulating “the Internet” and instead understand that every part of the Internet stack is different, and only one part is suffering from market failure.
Een docent in Lochem verloor zijn baan nadat hij tijdens de les naar pornobeelden had gekeken op zijn computer. De beelden verschenen per...
At a blockchain event i was at on Friday, someone made an offhand comment about how Patreon's editorial decisions meant that people no longer felt
Het grondrecht op de vrijheid van meningsuiting is een van de meest bekende burgerrechten. Te pas en te onpas wordt het gebruikt als argum...
Jordan Peterson, de extreemrechtse Canadese professor, die in Nederland vooral in kringen van FvD populair is houdt vanavond een lezing in...
Over the past few years, scandal after scandal has put tech companies under a microscope.
Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks.
Op de opiniepagina van Trouw levert Jaron Harambam vandaag kritiek op het bannen van de rechtse complotdenker en haatzaaier Alex Jones van...
American Conservative laments market concentration and private property as bad for free expression
Mark Zuckerberg made several newsworthy choices this week. One — to invoke Holocaust denial as an example of content that Facebook should keep up because “there are different things that different people get wrong” and “it’s hard to impugn [their] intent” — was ill-advised.
Vrijheid van meningsuiting hoort in mijn ogen bij het gedachtegoed van links. Het recht van burgers om zich vrijelijk te uiten en het verb...
De Amerikaanse rechtsgeleerde Nadine Strossen debatteerde in Brussel met Europees commissaris voor Justitie Věra Jourová, die de strijd he...
At a time when anyone can broadcast live or post their thoughts to a social network, we should be living in a utopia of public discourse. We're not.
College students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education.
Het ziet er naar uit dat een Kamermeerderheid het voorstel van D66 gaat volgen om het strafrechtsartikel over de majesteitsschennis af t...
The Paradox of Tolerance: should intolerance be tolerated?
Op de Haagse Hogeschool, mijn oude werkgever, is een rel uitgebroken over 'seksistische en discriminerende' uitspraken van docent Herre Fa...
Het Centraal Planbureau doet voorstellen voor een vergunningstelsel met regels voor digitale platforms zoals Facebook, Google en Amazon....
Freedom of speech “presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and always will be, folly; but we have staked upon it our all.” - United States v. Associated Press, 52 F. Supp....
We review the status of censorship in Egypt, the current challenges for civil society, and next steps for defending free expression.
In 2014 schorste toenmalig minister van Justitie Opstelten Yasmina Haifi, een van zijn ambtenaren, die op dat moment gedetacheerd was bij ...
In the wake of Charlottesville, both GoDaddy and Google have refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that, in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is “dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism.” Subsequently...
This week, companies including GoDaddy, Twitter, Google, Spotify, Paypal, Apple, and Cloudflare have booted hate groups off their services. These decisions
Marcel Hulspas mocht schrijven ‘bizarre club rond kletskous Micha Kat’ en ‘Kat is de ongekroonde koning van dit gekkenhuis’ alsmede hem als ‘gekkie’ wegzetten.
Laws that criminalize insulting Islam have led to a death sentence for posts, as activists worry Facebook’s commitment to Pakistanis’ ‘voice’ is mostly lip service
Debullshitifying the free speech debate about CNN and Trump's alt-right wrestling GIF
De tolerantie van onze 'beste vriend' wordt regelmatig op de proef gesteld. Een paar recente berichten: Een 14-jarige jongen uit Den H...
Weblog GeenStijl stimuleerde de schandelijke, seksistische intimidatie van een Volkskrantjournaliste waarop meer dan honderd vrouwelijke ...
Toen ik lang geleden begon met het inventariseren van in Nederland omstreden uitingen werd het recht op vrijheid van meningsuiting als iet...
Sinterklaas is weer in het land en burgemeesters strooien met noodverordeningen en demonstratieverboden. De politie arresteert massaal demonstranten en pakt daarbij een advocaat, journalist en een politicus op. En het gebeurt niet alleen bij Zwarte Piet.
Gelukkig houden terroristen zich altijd aan de wet
Facebook is at the heart of a national conversation on race and policing. Is it too close to law enforcement?
This is a thought-provoking manifesto for a ‘connected world’, a suggested agreement on how we disagree. But is freedom of expression what Garton Ash says it is?
Welcome! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about the First Amendment. I apologize for this impersonal approach to your mistake. I would prefer to…