Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
In brief Canada’s Department of Finance is pushing for a sweeping ban on Bitcoin and crypto ATMs, in an attempt…
from the nuance-cuts-both-ways dept You’re all sick of me saying we need to have more nuance in the discussion about…
I’ve finished reviewing the Supreme Court’s 92-page decision in Louisiana v. Callais (rhymes with waylay). I’ve distilled it down to about…
In brief The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady for a third time this year as conflict in…
Last November, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a Department of Energy…
In brief Talkie-1930 is a 13B open-weight LLM trained on 260 billion tokens of text published before January 1, 1931.…
The article is here; the Introduction: In recent years, a lively scholarly discourse has emerged about whether and how the…
In brief Meta now offers select creators USDC payouts to crypto wallets on the Solana and Polygon blockchains. The feature…
And check out our past episodes: Speech, Not “Conduct”: Supreme Court Rules on Conversion Talk Therapy Equal Time, Stephen Colbert,…
The past two years have seen vilifications of Israel galore, by both traditional anti-Zionists and antisemites and by those minted…
In brief Sen. Thom Tillis said the Senate Banking Committee should vote on the long-delayed Clarity Act when lawmakers return…
from the publishers-mess-up-everything dept As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone…