Tag: freedom of speech
  • Apr 28, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech

There’s a new US bill that everyone in the privacy world should know about — it goes by the name of “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022” or the “SMART Copyright Act of 2022” for short. Although the bill is mostly geared toward tackling copyright infringement, the way it does so … Continue reading “How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech”

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  • Sep 27, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Top court says “right to be forgotten” doesn’t always apply outside EU – and orders search engines to manipulate results

One of the more controversial elements of EU data protection law is the so-called “right to be forgotten” (RTBF), which dates back to 2014. This allows EU citizens to request internet search engines such as Google to remove search results directly related to them. Despite its misleading name, they are not “forgotten”: the material that … Continue reading “Top court says “right to be forgotten” doesn’t always apply outside EU – and orders search engines to manipulate results”

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  • Oct 21, 2018 |
  • Chris Miller |
  • Announcements, Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

#WeHearYouKhashoggi

The image you see above, is part of a full page ad we ran in The New York Times Sunday Edition today, October 21, 2018.   Late last night, we were informed that our ad had been pulled, but around 80,000 copies had already left. The ad had already been approved and paid for.  However, that … Continue reading “#WeHearYouKhashoggi”

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You don’t have Freedom of Speech without Privacy

Freedom of Speech is the idea that you can discuss ideas without fear of harassment. But the judicial protection is actually quite weak; it only protects you from repercussions from your government. In order to allow society to discuss forbidden ideas, ideas that may turn out to be in the right, a much wider Freedom … Continue reading “You don’t have Freedom of Speech without Privacy”

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There are two prongs in the ongoing attack on liberty and freedoms of opinion, assembly, and expression

There are two parallel prongs being executed right now to crack down on liberty in an unprecedented fashion: freedoms of assembly, of expression, of speech, and liberty overall. To realize the importance of what’s happening, we need to see both of these prongs. The first prong is to introduce wide-ranging exceptions to liberty to “extremist” … Continue reading “There are two prongs in the ongoing attack on liberty and freedoms of opinion, assembly, and expression”

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What happens when private limitations on freedom of speech get endorsed and expanded by government?

The European Commission is requesting/requiring Facebook, Twitter, and others to police their networks against undesirable political opinions and bad speech. This is cause for concern on a number of levels. Facebook’s community standards have long banned certain topics from being discussed – quite notably, anything resembling nudity. This is an effect of Facebook being a … Continue reading “What happens when private limitations on freedom of speech get endorsed and expanded by government?”

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