by WorldTribune Staff, May 3, 2020 Leftist politicians and major media are telling Americans on a daily basis that they must become accustomed to the “new normal” ushered in by the coronavirus pandemic. What they mean by “new normal” is the rolling back of free speech rights, analysts say. Democratic politicians are calling for censorship […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2020 Not content with eroding residents’ Second Amendment rights, Virginia Democrats are now launching an assault on the First Amendment as well, critics say. Democrat Delegate Jeffrey Bourne last week introduced House Bill 1627, which opponents say would essentially make criticism of government officials a criminal offense. Bourne’s legislation “provides […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2019 At Harvard, students’ so-called “feelings of unsafety” now apparently supersede freedom of the press. The Harvard Crimson, the university’s daily student newspaper which was founded in 1873, was rebuked by Harvard’s student government for having the audacity to exercise its First Amendment rights by covering both sides of a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 7, 2019 Leftists in politics, the media and on college campuses have become increasingly conflicted on the issue of free speech since the landmark free speech movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. Led by graduate student Mario Silva, those leftist protests marked the first mass act of campus civil disobedience in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2019 With social media monopolies driving privately-owned media out of business, journalism professors are advising their students to look for work outside of the news business. The practice of social media platforms of dismantling true journalism to protect their business models has created “the greatest assault on free speech in […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 12, 2019 The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London followed by the unsealing of his indictment and requested extradition by the U.S. government have given rise to a frenzied debate among advocates of the Free Press and First Amendment guarantees. But conservative media critics cited by this online […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2019 A Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill in the Florida legislature that would make it a crime for minors to post photos of guns on social media. The bill, introduced by state Sen. Jason W. B. Pizzo, states that anyone younger than 18 “who posts or publishes a picture […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2019 Alec Baldwin seems to cherish the freedom he has under the U.S. Constitution to trash President Donald Trump. But the actor, who also has been known to punch people over parking spaces, is outraged and terrified when Trump uses his own rights under the First Amendment to lambaste Baldwin. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2018 Most students at America’s top colleges and universities “surrender their free speech rights the moment they step onto campus,” according to a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). “Just over 90 percent of public colleges maintain policies that don’t live up to their free speech […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2018 CNN, in a lawsuit filed on Nov. 13, accused President Donald Trump and other White House officials including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of violating CNN personality Jim Acosta’s First and Fifth Amendment rights by revoking his White House press credentials. Pundits and “media experts” have launched […]
