Hate Crimes Are No Excuse to Throw Away the First Amendment
Politicians were quick to call for restrictions on "hate speech" in response to the mass shooting that took the lives...
Matt Hampton
Overused Orwell Analogies Shouldn’t Stop You From Reading 1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is one of my favorite novels of all time. Right away, that statement probably caused...
How the “Ministry of Truth” Can Censor You Without (Technically) Censoring You
The Department of Homeland Security's creation of a Disinformation Governance Board last week has a lot of people drawing comparisons...
Never Say Capitalism Can’t Save Free Speech
For years, some people who oppose censorship on social media have asserted that the government must stop it. Others have...
We Can Know What’s False. But We Shouldn’t Censor It
I recently saw a tweet from commentator and political scientist Yascha Mounk that I think does a great job of...
Acting Like You’re in ‘Don’t Look Up’ Gets You Nowhere
Remember Don't Look Up? You know, the apocalypse-comedy/climate-change satire that was reviled by critics and yet won a Best Picture...
Yes, Billionaires Should Run the Internet
Tesla CEO Elon Musk became Twitter's largest shareholder on Monday after purchasing 9.2 percent of its stock. Musk's announcement that...
The Will Smith Slap Shows the Rareness of Free Speech Consistency
It is the understatement of 2022 to say that there's been a lot of discussion about Will Smith slapping Chris...
The Most Blatantly Biased Social Media Censorship Decisions of the Week
This is a version of an article published in the Out of Frame Weekly, an email newsletter about the intersection...
Even Bill Cosby deserves due process
This is a version of an article published in the Out of Frame Weekly, an email newsletter about the intersection...
Another Tech Company Attacks ‘Health Misinformation’
Discord recently announced an update to its terms of service that prohibits "false or misleading health information that is likely...
Misinformation isn’t a ‘Russia problem’
This is a version of an article published in the Out of Frame Weekly, an email newsletter about the intersection...
