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  1. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  2. Defending the right to offend, shock or disturb
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
  3. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
  4. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
  5. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
  6. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
  7. Free Speech Protection Act could slow 'libel tourism'
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Free press advocates in Britain are looking to a bill stuck in the U.S. Congress for moral support in the fight to reform England#s draconian defamation laws. The U.S. bill, the Free Speech Protection Act 2009, is itself the product of those laws, which have made London the capital of #libel tourism.#
  8. Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
  9. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
  10. Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of #annoying others#
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia on 15 June.
  11. IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free speech after it put pressure on the website's host.
  12. Israel#s new #attack on freedom of speech#
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a #McCarthyite# campaign against human-rights groups.
  13. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
  14. Malik, Kenan
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
  15. No platform or no democracy?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
  16. No Platform Won't Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything #establishment# is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
  17. Out Lickspittle Press
    Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
  18. PEN Canada calls for changes to human rights commission legislation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Human rights commission legislation should be changed to ensure that commissions can no longer be used to attempt to restrict freedom of expression.
  19. Protect the Freedom to Shock
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
  20. Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
  21. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
  22. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
  23. Vietnam: Blogger's Arrest Alarms Free Speech Advocates
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Vietnamese pro-democracy blogger Nguyen Tien Trung on July 7 for allegedly engaging in anti-state activities.

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