by Maxim Lott. In a step that critics worry will inject political bias into search results, a Google research team released a report this month on ranking search results based on how factual websites are. They propose eventually using that to change Google rankings, which are currently based on website popularity. The Google researchers give, as an ... MORE
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Google Works To Rank Sites Based On ‘Truthfulness’
by Maxim Lott. In a step that critics worry will inject political bias into search results, a Google research team released a report this month on ranking search results based on how factual websites are. They propose eventually using that to change Google rankings, which are currently based on website popularity. The Google researchers give, as an ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: ‘Sensitivity’ Versus Freedom of Speech
Weak minds fear free speech. Recently my MBA business ethics class discussed the case of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo as well as the case of the Danish Mohammed cartoons published in 2006. Somebody also brought up Sony and its movie The Interview. We had just covered the virtue of integrity: loyalty to rational principles. ... MOREAfter Copenhagen: The Myth of Civilized Censorship
by Brendan O'Neill. Hate speech laws legitimize violence against those who offend. The two recent acts of censorship-by-murder in Europe—first at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and then at a free-speech debate in Copenhagen—have put the continent's political classes in a pickle. For as much as European rulers want to, and do, condemn the brutal ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: What Free Speech?
What exactly does free speech mean in France? The photos of 40 of the world's government leaders marching arm-in-arm along a Paris boulevard on Sunday with the president of the United States not among them was a provocative image that has fomented much debate. The march was, of course, in direct response to the murderous ... MORENeil MacDonald: More State Power, Not Free Speech, Likely To Be The Actual We-Are-Charlie Result
Well, everyone must at least feel better now, having chanted and declared for days that we're all Charlie. It was, or it seemed, a cry for freedom of speech, ringing outward from one of the world's first secular democracies. In reality, though, with all due respect to the sentiment behind it, Sunday's great march through the centre of Paris, ... MOREJacob Sullum: Despite Stand Against the Terrorist's Veto, France Treats Offensive Words and Images as Crimes
Charlie Hebdo in the dock. On Sunday, as more than a million people marched through the streets of Paris in support of the right to draw cartoons without being murdered, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication declared that "artistic freedom and freedom of expression stand firm and unflinching at the heart of our common European ... MOREKatie Kieffer: We Could Be Heroes, You And Me
"What is the point of my life if I’m a coward?” Twelve Charlie Hebdo staffers who died for free speech and 25 Republicans who voted against U.S. Speaker John Boehner are heroes. We too could be heroes, me and you. “We could be heroes, me and you,” are lyrics from Heroes (We Could Be)—a 2014 number one hit single by Swedish DJ ... MOREThis IS CNN: Cowards, Cowards, Cowards!
Afraid to show offensive cartoons of "the profit." "CNN will not show you the new cover, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad, because it is our policy not to show potentially offensive images of the prophet," the host declared this morning. See the image CNN (and others!) refuse to show you and hear their commitment to free speech. ... MOREJames Gattuso & Diane Katz: 10 Worst Regulations Of 2014
Laws beyond bad. As 2014 comes to a close, it is enveloped in red tape. From the
breakfast table to the night light, government regulators invaded nearly
every moment of our lives. Here’s our take on the 10 worst examples of
the past year: Number 10. Federal Censorship Commission: The Federal Communications Commission began considering a ... MOREHow Liberals Became the New Book Banners
by A. Barton Hinkle. Justice Anthony Kennedy: "Well, suppose it were an advocacy organization that had a book. Your position is that under the Constitution . . . the book itself could be prohibited." Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart: "If the book contained the functional equivalent of express advocacy."—Exchange during oral arguments over ... MOREIBD Editorial: Press Helps Obama Censor The News
It's not often that the press exposes its own bias. But a Washington Post story this week reveals both the Obama administration's attempts to censor the news and the media's complicity in that effort. For decades, news outlets have relied on pool reports from a rotating group of White House correspondents who follow the president ... MOREDemocrats Launch Effort To Get Rush Limbaugh Off The Air
by John Nolte. If you can't beat him, censor him. During the Bush administration, national Democrat leaders threatened to kill the ABC network's broadcast license if a miniseries unfavorable to the Clinton administration wasn't censored to satisfy Democrats. ABC complied. Earlier this year, Democrats started a push for a Constitutional ... MOREPress To Democrats: We’ll Take Free Speech, Thank You
From the editors of National Review. Senate Democrats are on the precipice of voting to repeal the First Amendment. That extraordinary fact is a result of the increasingly authoritarian efforts of Democrats, notably Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada, to suppress criticism of themselves and the government, and to suffocate any ... MOREWoman Arrested For Cursing In Grocery Store
by Jacob Sullum. No fucking way! According to a witness, Danielle Wolf cursed at her two little girls last week because they were squeezing the bread at a Kroger supermarket in North Augusta, South Carolina. "Stop squishing the fucking bread," Wolf reportedly said. Wolf says she was talking not to her children but to her husband, who was ... MOREMatt Welch: When the Left Turned Against Free Speech
The demise of the Free Speech Movement. On March 4, in a designated "free-speech zone" at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), associate professor of feminist studies Mireille Miller-Young walked over to a 16-year-old anti-abortion protester named Thrin Short and demanded that Short take down a graphic sign ... MORE
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