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Should freedom of speech be kept on a tight leash?
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Tunisia : Freedom Of Speech / Music Culture
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Eddie Griffin Stand Up 2015 - Freedom of Speech Comedy Full HD
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Modi Govt Always Supported Freedom Of Speech On Social Media: Ravi Shankar
The draconian Sec 66A is now history but social media can potentially be misused and can also cause riots. So, where does the govt draw the line? How does it intend to deal with threats posed...

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Social Media Ki Azaadi
Supreme Court uphold freedom of speech in a historic decision to scrap draconian Section 66A of IT act which allowed immediate arrest of people posting #39;offensive #39; content online. Sanjay Pugalia ...

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Illegal Checkpoints In America, Because This Is America
I Dont Need To Stop at a Checkpoint to Prove Who I Am Because This Is America FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS GONE - THE CONSTITUTION IS IN CRISIS ~ YOU HANG BY A THREAD FROM .

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A court in Turkey this week sentenced two cartoonists to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Soon after, the court changed the jail sentence to a fine of 7,000 Turkish lira or about $2,700 each.

Cartoonists Bahadir Baruter and Ozer Aydogan draw for the weekly satirical magazine Penguen. Founded in 2002 with a weekly average of 65,000 readers, the irreverent comic book -- similar in many ways to the French magazine Charlie Hebdo -- regularly skewers Turkish politicians.

A defamation suit was filed against an August cover of Penguen in which a cartoon figure of Erdogan is welcomed to the presidential palace by a public servant. Erdogan tells him, "But this is so dry. We could have at least slaughtered a journalist."

In a statement to the press, the Penguen team explained that a citizen who described himself as an Erdogan supporter "sent an email to the Prime Ministry Information Center. ... According to the notice, the employee (in the cartoon) 'made the gay signal with his fingers.' "

Turkey's public prosecutor eventually launched an investigation, claiming that both the speech bubbles and the "hand drawing" insulted Erdogan.

While the court ruled Wednesday in favor of Erdogan, a full-length explanation of the verdict will be released in a week to 10 days. It is so far unclear whether the judge ruled that the speech bubbles or the "gay hand gesture" or both were an insult.

The ruling comes amid an increase in criminal cases lodged against journalists, students and public figures for "defamation against a public officer." In 2014, Turkey was ranked one of the world's worst jailers of journalists by the media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders and its press status "not free" by Freedom House.

The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, Nils Muinieks, expressed his concern about the ruling against Penguen as well as the surge in criminal cases against people accused of insulting Erdogan.

"This sentence is misguided and, along with a pattern of criminal prosecutions, sends a chilling message to media professionals and all those who want to exercise their right to free expression," Muinieks said.

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Freedom of speech advocates find ruling to be upsetting

If U.S. high-school graduates don't understand the principles of freedom and equality essential to American government and the historical roots of these principles, how can we expect them to affirm and defend these principles as adults?

Many people are quick to blame teachers for the shortcomings of America's schools. And the shortcomings should be obvious.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress has shown consistently that many students, in the fields of U.S. history and government, among others, are not even mastering the basics

For example, the most recent NAEP U.S. history exam, in 2010, found just 12 percent of all U.S. high-school seniors scoring at or above the "proficient" level, which the Institute of Education Sciences describes as the level representing "solid academic performance to which all students ... should aspire."

In civics - the test covering the subject of U.S. government - the scores were somewhat better, but still, slightly less than one fourth of all high school seniors performed at or above the "proficient" level.

We often hear about the need to improve education in the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math. But American students perform worse on American history tests than in any other subject.

It's unfair to blame America's 125,000 social studies teachers, however. In the 17 years I've been with the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ashbrook, Ohio, some 8,000 teachers from across the country have participated in our educational programs. So I've had ample opportunity to interact with many teachers and know from first-hand experience they're not the problem.

The problem is the way teachers are trained. Teachers spend too much time learning how to teach - the mechanics of pedagogy - and not enough time learning what to teach.

Without a major change in how teachers are taught, America will continue down the same path, raising generation after generation of students who do not understand what it means to be an American, who equate freedom of speech with "selfies," who believe freedom of religion requires purging religion from the public square, who think our Founding Fathers - denigrated in popular culture as dead old white men - are irrelevant.

They also may end up thinking of Sam Adams solely as a beer company. Or associate Washington and Lincoln as having something to do with President's Day, a holiday when everybody goes shopping. Or The Fourth of July merely as an occasion for fireworks and a cookout.

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Free speech dialogue 3/3 - Michael Nugent and Abdullah al Andalusi at UCD
This is part 3 of 3 of Michael Nugent and Abdullah al Andalusi discussing freedom of speech or right to insult at the Islamic Society in University College Dublin on 5 March 2015. You can view...

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Tamil embodies the epitome of Freedom of Speech and Expression - Avvaiyar
Murugan, is a Tamil Siddhar (Siddhar means specialist or scientist). He specialized in martial arts. Later on, he came to be revered as a God. A famous legend about him says that at one point...

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