Displaying items by tag: free speech
OPINION: Facebook's violence standards make for a bad business plan
"Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence," reads the headline at Buzzfeed. One such employee asks "[a]t what point do we take responsibility for enabling hate filled bile to spread across our services?"
ACE Speedway loses first court battle challenging governor’s orders
RALEIGH — ACE Speedway must shut down all races.
Social justice doctrines ruining higher education, panelists say
RALEIGH — Free speech is in trouble on college campuses. Social justice indoctrination is to blame.
Fayetteville State gets FIRE green light after revising speech codes
North Carolina just earned its 12th green-light rating for campus free speech.
Purdue’s Daniels warns UNC audience higher education faces big challenges
RALEIGH — American universities are in jeopardy of becoming no better than finishing schools reserved for the rich, Mitch Daniels told an audience at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
GUEST EDITORIAL: Athletic association censors cheer squad over Trump banner
Legal scholars are blowing the whistle on a North Carolina school district and the state’s high school sports sanctioning body following a free speech controversy.
COLUMN: Chappelle defeats ‘cancel culture’ and confounds his critics
It’s “cruelty,” Salon’s Melanie McFarland scolds.
“Offensive in all the wrong ways,” wails Vice’s Patrick Marlborough.
Most popularly — to repeat a charge several critics have lobbed — Dave Chappelle is “punching down.”
Booze bureaucrats censor beer labels, drown free speech
While local liquor boards try to make the case that bureaucrats can do a better job than private businesses when it comes to managing the sale of alcoholic beverages, some small-minded censors at the North Carolina ABC Commission are spoiling for a First Amendment fight over irreverent craft beer names.
COLUMN: Don't let mass shooters and the New York Times destroy freedom of speech
"Online communities like 4chan and 8chan have become hotbeds of white nationalist activity," wrote the editors of the New York Times on Aug. 4 in the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Then: "Law enforcement currently offers few answers as to how to contain these communities."
GUEST EDITORIAL: FCC ‘viewpoint diversity’ study threatens speech
Helping women and minorities find their place behind the microphone and camera as broadcasters is commendable, but telling bureaucrats to monitor radio and television stations’ political leanings is a bridge too far.
