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During my years in the newspaper business, I spent more than three decades practicing and preaching the importance of our First Amendment right to free speech. The news organizations I

User moderation provides a compelling alternative to government regulation

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyWe live in the age of self-aggrandizing victimhood. Why take responsibility for your own actions when you can blame outside forces? The election was rigged. The media is out to get me. My neighbors on Martha’s Vineyard no longer want me shilling my books at the local library.And while there are certainly cases where bad things happen through outside forces, over the past few years this kind of performative victimhood (as a way to a...

Matt Taibbi and other Elon Musk-favored journalists published “The Westminster Declaration”—their latest attempt to spin a non-story into dire censorship.

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A group of free speech advocates are taking a stand against global censorship with a new declaration.

Since the COVID pandemic, authoritarians around the world have used claims of “disinformation” to censor people and stifle dissent about everything from the efficacy of masks and vaccines to the war in Ukraine.

Chris Skidmore wants to create a cross-party, international group of legislators committed to climate action.