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Music Free Tech 008: Free Speech Online
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A visit to Norrebro | Journal
Every Dane knows of Norrebro, the Copenhagen neighbourhood where police shot dead the gunman suspected of carrying out attacks on a synagogue and a free speech event that shocked the ...

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Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV - 02/15/2015 (FULL EPISODE)
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THE debate on free speech and its limits is thousands of years old, and different societies through the ages have taken very different positions.

Political power, religious authority and economic ideas can all be threatened by free speech.

For many people, that makes free speech not only an important principle, but an absolute one.

But free speech can also threaten our individual wellbeing, our lives or even our whole society, when those speaking incite others to act against us.

This tension will always exist, and the debate about free speech and its limits will keep resurfacing, never being resolved and always needing to be redefined.

We're currently being forced to consider these issues again following the violence in Copenhagen and Paris, perpetrated by people unwilling to accept that free speech includes the freedom to criticise or mock their religion.

The responses have been both defiant and creative, with the pencil becoming a symbol of free speech.

But it's not so long since our own laws came down on the other side of this debate.

It's less than a decade since blasphemy, which originally carried the death penalty, was repealed in England and Wales, something which has never been done in Scotland.

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Patrick Harvie

WASHINGTON POST

Some users are finding fault with Reddits failure to protect absolute free speech.

Reddit, the long-time haven of weirdos, perverts and miscreants the internet over, has been, from its beginning, the mainstream bulwark for free speech online.

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But in a strange twist that perfectly illustrates the current culturewide debate around online speech, a group of disgruntled users have begun an exodus off the site - claiming, against all odds, that Reddit is censoring them as a matter of corporate policy.

This is, for the record, the same Reddit that defended Violentacrez, the Texas man who ran forums on beating women and sexualising underage girls. The Reddit that allowed rampant speculation about the Boston bombing, even when it became dangerous. The Reddit that, just this past fall, supported a booming trade in stolen celebrity nude photos, and still, even now, hosts a variety of racist, misogynistic, homophobic and otherwise "NSFL" content that I dare not link to from here.

If this isn't enough free speech, what is?

To understand that question (let alone the answer to it), you have to start with a working knowledge of Reddit's labyrinthine depths. The site is, for the uninitiated, basically a social news service divided into tens of thousands of themed forums, called subreddits. Users submit links, photos and in-jokes to the forums, which are voted up or down by other users. The forums themselves are run by volunteer moderators, or mods, who can basically make and enforce rules as they see fit. In general, corporate Reddit - Advance Media-owned Reddit, US$50-million-funding-round Reddit, only-35-employees Reddit - doesn't step in unless the company is at risk of being sued.

The core philosophy, co-founder Alexis Ohanian explained in a book on Reddit's early days, was "giving the people what they want." Whatever they want. Accordingly, each forum looks a little different. In r/aww - one of my personal favourites - mods ban slurs, harassing comments and anything "sad." In r/thefappening, where users shared the celebrity nudes that ruled September's news cycle, slurs and harassing comments were basically the norm. (And that was, on its own, pretty sad.)

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The ex-mistress of a multimillionaire Manhattan businessman is calling her former sugar daddy a hypocrite for muzzling her on social media because he runs a foundation that promotes free speech.

Last week, after a Manhattan Family Court judge allowed Katherine Nelson, 40, to tweet about her affair with Delphi Group CEO Robert Rosenkranz, 72, the septuagenarian Yale and Harvard grad rushed to a judge in Manhattan Supreme Court to get an emergency gag order.

Rosenkranz got a temporary ruling barring Nelson from discussing her relationship with him or blabbing about anything she may have learned about him in person, by e-mail or on the Internet.

Nelson told The Post, Its very ironic that his whole charitable work is around public policy and the Constitution and here he goes to court and puts a prohibition on me to post any information on any forum.

The day after Valentines Day, Nelson flouted the gag order by posting a photo of a gift from her former lover Tiffany tassel earrings with a note from Rosenkranz on his personal stationery that read, Katherine Nelson: In appreciation ...

Rosenkranzs attorney, Peter Bronstein, said, Shes enjoined from saying anything about him.

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