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Censorship and Media

Let Parent's Decide: What a Concept!
Steven Titch
June 5, 2012, 2:05pm
Freedom of Speech on the Internet is the 'Paramount Concern'
Steven Titch
January 31, 2012, 12:19pm
Is the Cost of Internet Piracy Overhyped?
Steven Titch
January 24, 2012, 2:55pm
The Internet On Strike
Anthony Randazzo
January 18, 2012, 10:39am
Will the Web Make NC-17 Safe for Marketing?
Steven Titch
January 5, 2012, 12:45pm
Reading Is Fundamentally Forbidden
Prison Legal News fights for the First Amendment at South Carolina's Berkeley County Detention Center.
Greg Beato
August 25, 2011
Fundamentalists vs. the First Amendment
Stop worrying about Shariah. Christian fanatics are the ones using the government to restrict individual liberty.
A. Barton Hinkle
July 19, 2011
Fear of a Muslim America
In the fight against radical Islam, conservatives are trying to limit the property and speech rights of peaceful American Muslims.
Cathy Young
July 18, 2011
Stephen Colbert Lampoons the First Amendment
The Comedy Central host receives government approval to form a political action committee.
Jeff Patch
June 30, 2011
Big Daddy
The government should let parents regulate their children's entertainment.
Jacob Sullum
June 29, 2011
Local Government Meets the New Media
Steven Titch
June 24, 2011, 1:27pm
A Disgusting Act of Censorship
The British Board of Film Classification freaks out over The Human Centipede II
Brendan O'Neill
June 24, 2011
The Right To Be a Jerk
The First Amendment protects ugly speech.
A. Barton Hinkle
June 3, 2011
Big Brother Is Watching You
Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.
A. Barton Hinkle
May 25, 2011
Watch the Watchmen
It shouldn't be a crime to record the cops.
John Stossel
April 21, 2011
Posturing Against Pornography
The government should stop trying to censor the Internet.
Steve Chapman
April 21, 2011
It's a Mad, Mad World
Self-censorship and political correctness at Robert Morris University
Brendan O'Neill
April 15, 2011
Too Much Information
Conservatives should use state open records laws to go after the government, not individuals.
Shikha Dalmia
April 12, 2011
Free Speech for Terry Jones!
The idiotic reaction to a lunatic cult leader
Michael C. Moynihan
April 7, 2011
Money for Moochers
Arizona's 'Clean Elections' system is doomed—and for good reason.
Jacob Sullum
March 30, 2011
The Loughner Panic
Breaking down the media/political breakdown over the Tucson massacre
Nick Gillespie, Jesse Walker, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Brian Doherty, Radley Balko, Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum
March 14, 2011
Google Deconstructed
Steven Titch
March 11, 2011, 12:44pm
Against ‘Incitement’
Political speech doesn’t kill people, people kill people
Matt Welch
March 7, 2011
You Can Have Sex With Them; Just Don't Photograph Them
A former cop's 15-year prison sentence illustrates the absurdity of federal child porn laws.
Radley Balko
February 28, 2011
Islam and the Intolerance Problem
Comparing the attack on Gabrielle Giffords with the murder of a Pakistani politician
Cathy Young
January 25, 2011
A Beating in Pittsburgh
A year after three cops beat an unarmed music student, they are still getting paid to do nothing.
Radley Balko
January 24, 2011
Frame On
What the political class doesn’t get about Jared Lee Loughner.
Peter Suderman
January 13, 2011
This "Conversation" Is a Set-Up
Political rhetoric is not the problem.
David Harsanyi
January 12, 2011
The Price of Dissent in Putin's Russia
Moscow doubles down on its prosecution of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Cathy Young
January 7, 2011
Defending the Right to Offend
The never-ending assault on free expression
Michael C. Moynihan
January 6, 2011
Follow the Bouncing Buck
The year's highlights in blame shifting
Jacob Sullum
December 29, 2010
Julian Assange, Feminism, and Rape
How the WikiLeaks founder shined the spotlight on the debate over sex, rape, and consent.
Cathy Young
December 22, 2010
Is Julian Assange a Journalist?
For First Amendment purposes, it doesn't matter.
Jacob Sullum
December 22, 2010
Still Rotten
Five years after the "cartoon crisis," the precarious state of free speech in Denmark
Lars Hvidberg and Jacob Mchangama
December 20, 2010
Reason and Free Speech
A primer and a call to arms!
Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
December 17, 2010
Marked for Life
Constitutionally protected tattoos
Damon W. Root
December 17, 2010
Our Leaky World
WikiLeaks is only the beginning.
Jesse Walker
December 15, 2010
Assange's Extremist Employees
Why is WikiLeaks employing a well-known Holocaust denier and his disgraced son?
Michael C. Moynihan
December 14, 2010
Laying Cable with Barry and Dub
If WikiLeaks bores anybody to death, will Julian Assange be guilty of murder?
Tim Cavanaugh
December 8, 2010
Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier
When you want to believe, you'll believe anything.
Michael C. Moynihan
December 7, 2010
The WikiLeaks Debate
Julian Assange is neither a hero nor a villain.
Ken Kurson
December 3, 2010
The Appearance of Corruption
Both Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain tried to save their reputations by pushing campaign finance regulations.
Jacob Sullum
November 30, 2010
The Well-Pilfered Clavier
Does copyright protection prevent creators from making stuff and selling it?
Tim Cavanaugh
November 23, 2010
Doctors’ Orders
The government’s war on medical “price fixing” squelches speech without helping consumers.
S.M. Oliva
November 22, 2010
Rap and Metal on Planet Islam
The booming voice of pent-up Middle Eastern anger
James M. Dorsey
November 19, 2010
Chilling Her Softly
The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist
Jacob Sullum
November 17, 2010
The Democratizer
C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb talks about big spending, the First Amendment, and putting cameras where government doesn’t want them to go.
Nick Gillespie
November 16, 2010
The Great Radio Blockade
How hard is it to pass a reform in the face of an entrenched industry lobby?
Jesse Walker
November 12, 2010
Political Correctness on Campus
We need more debate about controversial subjects like affirmative action, not less.
John Stossel
November 11, 2010
Can't Buy You Love
The essential yet limited role of money in politics
Jacob Sullum
November 10, 2010