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Do you lack self-confidence, a must-have for business success? Let’s fix it right now
Self-confidence is a skill, and like any other skill, it can be acquired. Step 1: Just do it. Act as if you exude it. Fake it until you become it.
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Opinion | Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?
I joined Facebook in 2008, and for the most part, I have benefited from being on it. Lately, however, I have wondered whether I should delete my Facebook account. As a philosopher with a special interest in ethics, I am using “should” in the moral sense. That is, in light of recent events implicating Facebook in objectionable behavior, is there a duty to leave it?
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Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King
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We’re Telling a Court (Again) That President Trump and Other Government Officials Can’t Block People on Twitter For Disagreeing With Them
President Donald Trump and his lawyers still believe he can block people on Twitter because he doesn’t like their views, so today we’ve filed a brief telling a court, again, that doing so violates the First Amendment. We’re hopeful that the court, like the last one that considered the case, will side with the plaintiffs, seven individuals blocked by Trump who are represented by the Knight First Amendment Institute. As we explain in the brief, the case has broad implications for the public as social media use by the government becomes more and more ubiquitous.
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How one article capsized a New York literary institution
A controversial piece by Jian Ghomeshi in the New York Review of Books cost editor Ian Buruma his job and sparked a debate about free speech
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Google fights worldwide 'right to be forgotten' in EU court
Google clashed with France in a top European Union court on Tuesday (Sept 11), arguing that it feared for freedom of speech if forced to apply Europe's "right to be forgotten" principle worldwide. "The court is hearing a wide range of testimonies today, which is highly unusual for a case like this," said a legal source at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, on condition of anonymity.
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When Freedom of Speech Hit an All-Time Low
Socialist party presidential candidate Eugene Debs was sent to prison for speaking out against World War I, and thousands of others were charged with speech crimes.
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Australian Senator David Leyonhjelm Introduces Bill To Protect Video Games Against Bans
Video games have been getting banned a lot recently in Australia (and a few Stateside as well). The Social Justice Warrior brigade have been targeting specific kind of games and putting them in front of ratings boards and platform holders and attempting to get them banned so gamers don’t even have a choice in being able to purchase those titles. Well, Liberal Democrats Senator, David Leyonhjelm, has decided to fight back by issuing three bills that will help protect free speech whether it be in debate, in movies, in books, or video games.
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Free Speech or Die?
The paradox of self-victimization by the alt-right. By Talib Kweli Greene
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Pakistan under pressure to rein in blasphemy law
One of the most frightening things about Pakistan's blasphemy law is that the simplest act can spiral into charges that can bring the death penalty. In the case of Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman, it started when she brought water to her fellow women workers on a farm.
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Your Right to Free Speech, Like My Right to Self-Defense, Isn’t Open to Debate
Rallying to call for restrictive laws is a whole lot easier than getting people to submit to them. By J.D. Tuccille.
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Roger Stone Says He Will Sue Twitter Over Account Suspension (Exclusive)
Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone Jr. said he will sue Twitter in response to the company banning him from the platform. “I have retained one of the best telecommunications lawyers in the country and will be bringing a legal action against Twitter over The suspension of my account,” he told TheWrap. “The battle for free speech has just begun.’
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The threat to free speech on campus is a right-wing fantasy
Nobody is actually being censored at all – they’re just being spoken back to. By Laurie Penny.
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People Literally Do Not Understand What Laws Are Or How They Work
A large percentage of people support criminalizing more speech. By Oren Nimni, Nathan J. Robinson
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College students have a high tolerance for limiting speech
President Trump is sometimes criticized for what his critics say is a lack of support for the First Amendment based on his frequent attacks on the mainstream media. But it appears that he's not the only American who thinks there's no place for viewpoints that a listener finds offensive. Some millennials — the largest demographic in the country — do not seem to be a big fan of the fact that the First Amendment protects hate speech, especially millennials in college.
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Kathy Griffin Isn’t Apologizing Anymore
The comedian lost jobs, money, and friends after releasing a provocative image of President Trump. But she refuses to bend the knee.
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"This Is Dangerous": Digital Activists Slam Tech Firms For Banning Neo-Nazi Websites
As social media and internet companies scramble to ban or otherwise cut ties with extremist and far right-wing websites like the neo-nazi Daily Stormer, which were unceremoniously dropped by the likes of GoDaddy, Google and security firm Cloudflare earlier this week after helping to organize last weekend's deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, a prominent nonprofit has come forward to defend them.
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Suspensions for College Students Who Thwarted Free Speech
Claremont McKenna punished multiple campus activists who shut down an event featuring a pro-police speaker—but were those punishments justified? By Conor Friedersdorf.
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An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech
Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation and free speech. They are right. The Internet has become our public square, our newspaper, our megaphone. The Federal Communications Commission is trying to turn it in something more akin to commercial cable TV, and we all have to work together to stop it.
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