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2 Nov 2019, 5:02 pm
. ● In a special edition of the podcast Clear And Present Danger, Jacob Mchangama and David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, put current challenges to free expression in historical perspective and explore how to apply international human rights standards to address harmful online speech. ● Call for Papers: Women in the Digital World. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 2:58 am
Tuccille, Reason] “In a world first, Facebook to give data on hate speech suspects to French courts” [Mathieu Rosemain, Reuters, Jacob Mchangama on Twitter] Michael Jackson fan clubs sue sex-abuse complainants “under a French law against the public denunciation of a dead person,” good example of why laws like that are a bad idea [AP/GlobalNews] Turkish “Academics for Peace” initiative of 2016: “Of the petition’s more than 2,000… [read post]
22 May 2019, 6:16 am
Carter Journalism Institute with Nadine Strossen and Jacob Mchangama. [read post]
15 May 2019, 2:58 am
Pepper, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining four liberals, takes a little nick out of Illinois Brick doctrine limiting antitrust suits [my new Cato post] Ninth Circuit will soon hear case in which judge ordered Idaho prison system to provide inmate with transgender surgery; I’m quoted saying lower court decision amounted to battle of the experts [Amanda Peacher, NPR/KBSX; audio clip] “The Moral Panic Behind Internet Regulation” [Matthew Lesh, Quillette] “A Single Global… [read post]
2 May 2019, 1:29 pm
" with former ACLU president and current NYLS professor Nadine Strossen and Justitia founder Jacob Mchangama at the NYU Journalism Institute. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 3:02 am
[Jacob Sullum] The U.K. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 3:05 am
” [Conor Friedersdorf during Ford-Kavanaugh episode] “Fighting Words and Free Speech” [John Samples] “A New Podcast on Free Speech: Many Victories, Many Struggles” [same on Jacob Mchangama podcast series] “U.K. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 3:09 am
[Scott Shackford, related] Federalist Society telecast on Ninth Circuit decision on Idaho “ag-gag” law with UCLA lawprof Eugene Volokh and Andrew Varcoe of Boyden Gray & Associates; “Arrests for offensive Facebook and Twitter posts soar in London” [Sadie Levy Gale, Independent] Downhill in Denmark: “How the Right Abandoned Free Speech in Europe” [Cato podcast and Reason interview with Jacob Mchangama] Tags: ACLU, agriculture and… [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 3:52 am
” [Karol Markowicz on Brooklyn pol who’s bragged of pressuring venues to cancel GOP and NRA events] “Free Speech in International Perspective” symposium this month at Cato Unbound includes Jacob Mchangama, Anthony Leaker, Jeremy Waldron, Jonathan Rauch; “An opinion, however moronic or unfair, is absolutely protected [absent special circumstances not present here]…. [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 3:05 am
Two new podcast series on free speech: “Make No Law,” from Ken White (Popehat) on Legal Talk Network; Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech from Jacob Mchangama for FIRE and other groups; No, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act does not require tech companies to provide a “neutral public forum. [read post]
10 Sep 2017, 9:05 am
It’s a very old one, which again and again results in governments’ enshrining their particular version of orthodoxy as truth [Jacob Mchangama, Quillette] Tags: free speech, newspapers, publishers, social media Regulating “fake news” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
29 May 2017, 9:05 pm
“There are about 10 to 20 [criminal libel] prosecutions each year throughout the country” [Eugene Volokh on criminal defamation complaint by Montana judge against election opponent who had accused him of misconduct] “Shutting down Fake News Could Move Us Closer to a Modern-Day ‘1984’” [Flemming Rose and Jacob Mchangama, Washington Post/Cato] Glad to be in America with our First Amendment: EU acts to adopt Europe-wide rules requiring social… [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 9:15 pm
The European Union may bring member states before the European Court of Justice for protecting freedom of expression too vigorously, reports Jacob Mchangama. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 10:48 am
Denmark had allowed its old blasphemy law to fall into disuse, but now it’s reviving prosecutions by way of its ban on hate speech purportedly aimed at religious groups [Jacob Mchangama, Columbia U. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 10:09 am
: Emerging International Human Rights Norms Pertaining to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rosa Freedman & Jacob Mchangama, Expanding or Diluting Human Rights? [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm
., WSJ, paywall] In Denmark, courage of cartoon editors belatedly recognized, yet fear governs press [Jacob Mchangama, Politico Europe] Federal judge: First Amendment forbids Kentucky officials to shut down parenting column written by N.C. psychologist on grounds that it constitutes practice of psychology in Kentucky without a license [Caleb Trotter, Pacific Legal Foundation] “To Tweet or Not to Tweet: How FDA Social Media Guidelines Violate the First Amendment”… [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm
” That includes TV personalities’ tweets disparaging to Glasgow [BBC, Alex Massie/Spectator, Elizabeth Nolan Brown] More: Calls mount for repeal of Australia Section 18C speech-crime law, which would ban the French magazine Charlie Hebdo if someone tried to publish it down there [Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, earlier on Andrew Bolt case] “Hate speech” concept got rolling when Stalin used it as weapon against democracies [Jacob Mchangama, Hoover, a… [read post]
11 May 2012, 5:41 am
“Union Uses NAFTA To Fight Alabama Immigration Law” [Sean Higgins, IBD] “UN hunger expert investigates Canada” [Hillel Neuer, National Post]“Everyone’s grievances can thus be transformed into human rights violations” [Jacob Mchangama and Aaron Rhodes, Freedom Rights Project, PDF] Admittedly, at a “lefty Quaker school in the Northeast”: “You know international law is getting some traction when your fourth-grader is being… [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 6:49 am
” [Wendy Kaminer, Brendan O'Neill] Jacob Mchangama of Danish think tank CEPOS on blasphemy laws and Islam-critical speech [Nov. 4 FedSoc., PDF] Niall Ferguson to sue LRB scribe? [read post]
