[Opinion] Free speech under fire

Free speech under fire

An activist takes an Australian commissioner to court to defend free speech

Journalist and GOLD FM moderator Jessie Baneș has reported, on her social media accounts, a serious, perpetual abuse to which she and other journalists expressing their political opinions have been subjected in the context of the 2025 presidential elections in Romania. As if the censorship that has been applied, over the past 5 years, to opinions and analyses related, first, to the pandemic, then to the war, then to issues related to the destruc…

Free Speech Zone: Negative side of social media

People of Cerritos College share some of the ways that social media can negatively affect people. The post Free Speech Zone: Negative side of social media first appeared on Talon Marks.

The Free Speech Grift Goes to Congress

Matt Taibbi at the House Foreign Affairs CommitteeLast Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the nation's most pressing First Amendment violation: the Trump Administration’s targeting, detainment, and deportation of dissident voices. In a strong rebuke to President Trump, the committee and its witnesses stood firm for speech rights, calling for the immediate release of political prisoners Mahmoud Kh…