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View More NewsFIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers better understand the global context of free expression. Want to make sure you don’t miss an update? Sign up for our newsletter.UK takes two steps backLast week, the High Court of England and Wales overturned a £585,000 ($793,696) fine against the University of Sussex. The school had allegedly violated free speech policies by investigating philosophy professor Kathleen Stock for institutional transphobia because she believes people cannot change their biological sex. But the Court said that the Department of Education had unfairly targeted…
from the America-Last dept FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent much of the last five years on cable TV whining incessantly about foreign entanglement with U.S. companies. Even companies he doesn’t regulate. He was positively apoplectic about China’s ownership of TikTok, which you may recall they “fixed” by offloading the social media company to Trump’s billionaire friends (while curiously maintaining Chinese co-ownership). He’s also been endlessly whiny about Chinese entanglement in U.S. hardware, recently imposing a “ban” on foreign routers (which is actually more of a lazy extortion scheme). But when it comes to a Trump-allied right wing billionaire buying…
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From the Kurdish frontline facing the Islamic State, I watched through binoculars as fighters stood in pickup trucks rigged with stripped-down autocannons, bellowing war cries. They were exposed in ways that no conventional military would tolerate. Days earlier, at the nearby village of Kudilah, my research team and I had chronicled a battle in which ISIS fighters held off US-trained Sunni Arab militia and Iraqi army units. The Kurdish Peshmerga eventually intervened and pushed ISIS back. But then they withdrew, leaving the village in ISIS hands. Kurdish commanders were unwilling to lose more men to hold an Arab village that…
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from the sad,-pathetic-men dept Anonymous insiders tell the access journalists at Semafor that Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr is cooking up a “review” of…
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