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Free Speech Tag

A new experiment performed by conservative comedian Steven Crowder alleges that YouTube isn't merely lying but that they're purposely going out of their way to curate search results within the United States to a degree that could be considered election tampering.

Two students from the University of Connecticut are currently under arrest because they used racial slurs. That may be tasteless and inappropriate, but at the end of the day, they're just words. These students were arrested for saying words.

The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that its member states can order Facebook to remove 'illegal' or 'defamatory' posts and comments worldwide. Any content found objectionable by a national court belonging to the 28-member bloc can be deleted from the world's largest social network, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg said.

Sometimes someone writes something that you wish you yourself had written. A few weeks ago I had just put the finishing touches on my new novel, Nevergreen, a “high-spirited, richly imagined” campus satire that is both “smart and hilarious” (IMHO), when I learned that debut novelist Scott Johnston was a week away from publishing a campus satire called Campusland that Kirkus Reviews described in the words I just quoted.