Free Speech - Quillette (Page 10)

Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video

The behavior on display in that video didn’t originate in a place of reason, but rather the realm of spiritual passions.

Sky Gilbert

1 Jun 2019 · 11 min read

It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders

The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure.

Eoin Lenihan

29 May 2019 · 8 min read

Last Days at Hot Slit—A Review

Reading this collection is recommended—because, while feminists still generally keep Dworkin at arm’s length, the modern movement contains far more of her than they care to admit.

Jerry Barnett

15 May 2019 · 14 min read

A Single Global Standard for Internet Content Regulation Is a Recipe for Censorship

If we are to realize Zuckerberg´s idea of an internet that is “safe” from “harmful” content, we will have to choose which groups get to enjoy a digital safe space.

Jacob Mchangama

6 May 2019 · 13 min read

Policing the Creative Imagination

If sensitivity readers become a publishing institution, they will only incentivize more cautious, conservative, and ideologically homogenous books.

Craig DeLancey

5 May 2019 · 9 min read

Imperfect Comedy in an Age of Perfection

Comedy, on the other hand, reminds us that we all have a dark side and that we might want to reconsider before casting stones.

Tanael Joachim

2 May 2019 · 4 min read

The Moral Panic Behind Internet Regulation

This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.

Matthew Lesh

30 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

How to Prevent Campus Deplatformings: Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Concordia University

Universities have no obligation to invite any particular public figure to speak on campus. But once they’ve promised someone a platform, the stakes are raised: Both speaker and audience are invested in the outcome.

Jonathan Kay

19 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists

It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.

Baz Edmeades

6 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Cambridge University’s Shameful Treatment of Jordan Peterson

To insinuate that Jordan Peterson is a contributor to sectarianism and division is the opposite of the truth.

Stephen Blackwood

3 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee

How can students advocate for speech codes and still believe that freedom of speech is secure?

Pamela Paresky

1 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

Banning Evil: In the Shadow of Christchurch, Quasi-Religious Myths Can Lead Us Astray

It is my contention that we must protect speech no matter how hateful it may seem.

Michael Shermer

26 Mar 2019 · 11 min read

What's the State of Free Speech on Campus? That’s the Question We Asked Canadian Academics

The threat is embedded in innocuous seeming administrative protocols, which serve to obscure and diffuse the means of authority

Brayden Whitlock and Kyle Whitlock

25 Mar 2019 · 10 min read

Quillette Podcast 17 – Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige on the company's ambivalence towards free speech

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, about the company’s content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech.

Quillette

19 Feb 2019 · 1 min read

Poetic Injustice and Performative Outrage

Dehumanization can lead to the worst of human atrocities. It is also precisely the type of complaint Trump’s critics make of the president’s own behavior.

Clint Margrave

14 Feb 2019 · 16 min read