Category Archives: Censorship

Free Speech & Jewish Law

From New Jersey Jewish News: Moderator Andrew Napolitano, a New Jersey Superior Court Judge from 1987 to 1995 and the current senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel, kicked off a broad discussion of First Amendment controversies with a question … Continue reading

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Facebook begins Europe-wide campaign against extremist posts

The ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center will be happy with this. REUTERS: Facebook Inc (FB.O) began a Europe-wide campaign on Monday to thwart extremist posts on social media, after German politicians in particular raised concerns about a rise in … Continue reading

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Law chiefs give Crown Court judge permission to rule at SHARIA court set up by hardline cleric who led demonstration against Charlie Hebdo

Daily Mail: Judge Shamim Qureshi is a highly respected jurist at Bristol Crown Court He is also the leading legal figure at the Sharia Muslim Arbitration Tribunal Judicial authorities granted Judge Qureshi permission to sit on the MAT The MAT … Continue reading

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Imprisoned For Speech

It’s shocking that this man has been years in prison simply for matters of speech. From Wikipedia: Simon Guy Sheppard[1] (born 1957) is a British political activist from Hull, England, who runs a number of websites promoting his far right, … Continue reading

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The Advantage Of A Written First-Amendment

Comments to Steve Sailer: * Proto-Victorianism starts with John Wesley’s Methodist revival. Methodists were encouraged to stop drinking and whoring, and lead productive, Ned Flanders-ish lives. Young Methodists were often thoroughly embarrassed by their foul-mouthed, hard-drinking grandparents of the Ben … Continue reading

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