U.S. Supreme Court allows foul language trademarks in F-word case
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a long-standing U.S. ban on trademarks on "immoral" or "scandalous" words and symbols, ruling in a case involving a clothing brand with an indelicate name that the law violates constitutional free speech rights. The justices ruled against President ...
A remark by Prince Akishino, who will become heir to the Chrysanthemum throne next year, stirs controversy over how freely members of the Imperial family can speak about contentious matters.
Battling campus oppression of the freedom of expression
'Bias response teams' are squelching liberty of speech at American universities.
Conservatives can't force YouTube to be free-speech zone: California judge
A producer of online civics lessons with a conservative bent got schooled by a federal judge on why it's hard to sue Google for censorship. The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment bars the government from silencing people over their political views, but it doesn't require private ...
What to do when liberals are the censors?
"Offense" and "hurt" are central concepts in rising efforts on the left to curtail free speech.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday denounced football players who have protested racism by kneeling or locking arms during the playing of the national anthem before games, saying that even though their speech is protected, they should be condemned for showing disrespect to ...
Americans feared Trump, but normalized leftist violence
The cost of preventing thieves from stealing American's constitutionally guaranteed freedoms is growing increasingly high.
After Charlottesville: If you fire a fascist, you are a fascist
It's time to overthrow the millions of little Hitlers who think that issuing a paycheck turns their employees into slaves subject to thought control.
Why Japan's poor media grade matters
Japan has a media problem, and it's holding back the economy and undermining Abe's goal of raising Tokyo's global status.
Teachers have fewer rights than students
A recent Tokyo High Court decsion unwittingly affirmed that students possess more free speech rights than teachers.
U.N. experts see 'alarming, undemocratic' U.S. trend against free speech, protest
Nineteen U.S. states have introduced bills that would curb freedom of expression and the right to protest since Donald Trump's election as president, an "alarming and undemocratic" trend, U.N. human rights investigators said on Thursday. Concerns for free speech in the United States have risen ...
Government, media equally to blame in debate on free speech, say journalists
Veteran Japanese journalists have stepped up their criticism of communications minister Sanae Takaichi over her comments that the government can suspend broadcasters' operations if they air what it considers politically-biased programs. However, during a news conference Thursday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in ...
