Jo Glanville: Cablegate’s long-term meaning for free expression The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship
Brian Cathcart: Students, class, protest and politeness The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship
U K News reported, it was a five-on-five contest involving family and friends, including Hillary Clinton, Obama’s Secretary of State. The White House’s internal sports trainer, Reggie Handles, told UK News: Hillary had him over a barrel. She was dribbling; cutting and faking like a bat out of hell. During the second quarter Hillary broke [...]
You couldn’t pay us a million dollars to do Black Friday.Black Friday is our idea of consumer hell. We did it once, regrettably. We shot out of bed at 3 in the morning to stand in a long line to get INTO the store, and an even longer line to pay. In the end, we [...]
William Clowes: Obama’s “Internet kill switch” powers under review The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship
As you gather with family and friends this Thanksgiving, please pause for a minute to express your thanks for the bounty of blessings we all enjoy. America is a land of abundance, prosperity, and hope and we should not take for granted the things that make our country great: a firm foundation of freedom, justice, [...]
William Clowes: Bollywood tackles gay taboo The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship
Although legend has it that this expression alludes to appropriating the estates of St. Peters Church, in Westminster, London, to pay for the repairs of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the 1800s, the saying first appeared in a work by John Wycliffe about 1382. End of our history lesson for today. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, [...]
Dinah Gardner: Chinese activist sentenced to year in labour camp for twitter joke The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship
A few weeks ago Ben West, a “community organizer” for B.C.’s Wilderness Committee challenged me to a debate about the oilsands. I happily accepted and we had at it last night in Vancouver, at a function moderated ably by the editor of the Georgia Straight newspaper, Charlie Smith. Ben and Charlie are some of the [...]