Freedom of speech
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Twitter trolls: a gold medal for overreaction | Duleep Allirajah
The first week of the Olympics won’t be remembered for an avalanche of Team GB gold medals.
Beware the celebrity troll-hunters | Patrick Hayes
Earlier this year, Twitter announced it had over 140million users firing out one billion tweets every three days. Rather than just shouting at the telly, many thousands of people are now tweeting their thoughts about every aspect of it to the world.Free speech on Facebook? Think again | Patrick Hayes
‘He didn’t make his point very well and that is why he has landed himself in bother.’ Talk about the understatement of the year.
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Spinoza and The First Amendment
Yesterday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) pushed through a new law stipulating that people can be imprisoned for things they say. So it’s a good moment to reflect on what the principle of free speech means in practice.
The SNP’s offensive against free speech | Kevin Rooney
Stephen Birrell doesn’t like Catholics, he doesn’t like Celtic Football Club manager Neil Lennon and he doesn’t like Celtic supporters. These are not exactly unusual sentiments in certain parts of Scotland. But what is unusual is that last week Birrell was jailed for expressing such prejudices.
We need free speech for all - even bigots | Kevin Rooney
A screengrab shows a woman ranting against black and Polish people on a Croydon to Wimbledon tram. Photograph: YouTube The video of the woman ranting against black and Polish people ("What has this country come to?
'My tram experience' is shocking – but should it be cause for arrest? | Sunny Hundal | Comment is free
Imagine the scene. A dawn raid. A vanload of police officers batter down a front door.
Celtic fans: you’re not singing anymore | Kevin Rooney
The Australian , 26 November 2011 WHY do people’s critical faculties go up in a puff of smoke when it comes to the debate about cigarettes?
Brendan O’Neill - Plain packaging is an infringement of free speech
The 2008 HBO documentary, Thriller in Manila (see a review here ), tells the story of the epic rivalry between heavyweight boxers Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. In the battle for our sympathies, it was Frazier who won that particular fight. The film shows how Ali taunted Frazier, portrayed him as an establishment figure, an ‘Uncle Tom’.
Let’s all be more like The Greatest | Niall Crowley