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Free Speech Topics
Free Speech Highlights
Free Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link
From Mubarak knocking a country offline by pressuring local ISPs to PayPal caving to political pressure to cut off funding to WikiLeaks, this year has brought us sobering examples of how online speech can be...
Online Censorship
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Onlinecensorship.org seeks to encourage social media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate speech. We’re collecting reports from users in an effort to shine a light on what content is taken down, why companies make...
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
Free Speech Updates
Global Condemnation for Turkey's Detention of Innocent Digital Security Trainers
The detention of a group of human rights defenders in Turkey for daring to learn about digital security and encryption continued last week with a brief appearance of the accused in an Istanbul court. Six were returned to jail, and four released on bail. In an additionally absurd twist, the...
Industry Efforts to Censor Pro-Terrorism Online Content Pose Risks to Free Speech
In recent months, social media platforms—under pressure from a number of governments—have adopted new policies and practices to remove content that promotes terrorism. As the Guardian reported , these policies are typically carried out by low-paid contractors (or, in the case of YouTube, volunteers) and with little...
Third Circuit Declares First Amendment Right to Record Police
The First Amendment protects our right to use electronic devices to record on-duty police officers, according to a new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Fields v. Philadelphia . This right extends to anyone with a recording device, journalists...
EFF Condemns Detentions at Turkish Digital Security Meeting
Turkish police officers in plainclothes yesterday raided a digital security training meeting on the island of Buyukuda in Istanbul, seizing equipment and detaining ten attendees, including Idil Eser , the director of Amnesty International Turkey. The human rights defenders are still being held in separate detention centers,...
Everyone Should Have a Real Chance to Defend Their Anonymity
In the United States, everyone – even people accused of offensive conduct – has the right to communicate anonymously, and that right should never be infringed without due process. Our Constitution guarantees this, whether your speech is popular or distasteful. At the same time, people who have been harmed by...
