Reading Time: 3 minutes A very entertaining story has come out of Hong Kong recently. After the Hong Kong goverment’s “Obscene Articles Tribunal” censored a Chinese student magazine as “indecent” for publishing a sex column asking if readers had ever fantasized about incest or bestiality, over 800 residents protested by calling on the government to classify the Bible as […]
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Free Speech Under Siege at the United Nations
Reading Time: 5 minutes The United Nations, which was founded after World War II with the noble goal of preventing further violence and conflict between nation-states, is losing its way. The U.N. has historically been a great supporter of human rights, including the most important of them all, the right of free speech. Consider Articles 18 and 19 of […]
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Sylvia Browne: Enemy of Free Speech
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have written previously about the “psychics” so popular in our culture, whose pretense of being able to speak to the dead and otherwise gain knowledge through supernatural powers wins them wealth and accolades from a credulous public and a shallow, sensationalist media, despite the total lack of convincing evidence to date that any of […]
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The Devil Cannot Abide Mockery
Reading Time: 5 minutes The recent fiasco over the cartoons of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper shows that free speech is still very much under threat. Though this basic human right has long been guaranteed in the Western world, this controversy should remind us that there is still a large section of humanity among whom free speech is […]