How should we deal with professional trolls? The same way we deal with regular trolls; by refusing to feed…
Category Freedom of Expression
The excellent Steven Pinker has an article in the Boston Globe today defending free speech. It’s an incomplete defence,…
Free speech in the UK is getting worse. More and more, taking offense is often followed by a report to…
In general, yes, when we speak of ‘free speech’ we are talking about the negative liberty to not be arrested for whatever we say (of course, there’s plenty of complexity contained within the idea of “whatever we say”, but I’ll assume that we have some reasonable notion of what that might be).
I do, however, see the claim (that this sort of free speech is the only sort of free speech worth caring about) as a bit naïve.
A few days ago I wrote a piece that expressed my worries about the jail sentences handed to a young…
The UK has been going a little crazy recently with enacting criminal punishment for activity on social networks. We’ve…
Just because we have the freedom to do something, doesn’t mean we should do it. This line is often…
This post will raise a question that I don’t know the answer to: if Twitter implements a ‘Report Abuse’…
This post follows on from here. Kateb writes: “The defense of worthless and harmful expression must be at…
This post follows on from here. Applying this to the question of freedom of expression is a complicated task.…