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#freedomofexpression

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oatmeal

Noa Limona details in #Haaretz how the Shin Bet intelligence service summoned a Palestinian student from Haifa University for interrogation regarding his activities with the #Hadash (left) party’s university branch.

The student underwent body searches twice - upon arrival and before entering the interrogation room. When he asked if this was a formal investigation, the Shin Bet operative said no, adding cryptically that “the investigation will be underground, without light.”

The operatives explicitly warned the student not to “cross red lines” or “even come close to them.” They allegedly threatened that if he did, they would raid his parents’ house at 4 AM and destroy it.

[…] Haaretz has learned that another Arab student who belongs to the Haifa University Hadash branch was summoned for a similar warning talk. The second student said he preferred not to talk to Haaretz for fear of the consequences.

haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0 or

@academicchatter
@palestine
@israel
#IsraelFascism #ShinBet #freedomofexpression

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Brad Rosenheim

Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he and five other state leaders are launching a new accreditation system for universities. This is the result of a tantrum he is having because he lost in court against the Biden Department of Education (remember when we had one of those?) when he tried to control the speech of subject area experts who were doing research and establishing university policy that he felt was too woke.

He frames this as introducing competition to the accreditation market. (Capitalists always going to capitalist). He says now universities will have a choice. And if you actually believe that, well...

The state has already prevented one university president, chosen by a cabal of trustees, one faculty member, and a student, from taking office. By installing presidents of their liking, of their political persuasion, the governors of these states will do exactly what they claim the radical left is doing - politically forming curriculum and missions of state universities. Those presidents will publicly thank the governor for introducing choice to the market, and swiftly change accreditors.

The best part? He openly acknowledges that this must be done swiftly before his term ends and the mid term elections happen.

highereddive.com/news/6-univer

#AttackOnHigherEducation
#Florida
#Gleichschaltung
#indoctrination
#AcademicFreedom
#FreedomOfExpression

Higher Ed Dive · 6 public university systems unveil plans to launch new accrediting agencyBy Natalie Schwartz
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Susan Ville

📢 The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for #humanrights Michael O’Flaherty on Thursday called on #germany to respect #freedomofexpression and peaceful assembly amid ongoing restrictions on pro-Palestinian demonstrations

In a letter addressed to German Interior Minister Dobrindt, O’Flaherty expressed concern over measures that reportedly restrict the use of Arabic language at protests in Berlin, as well as increased surveillance of demonstrators since FEB-2025

📰 MEMO 👇🏽

middleeastmonitor.com/20250619

Middle East Monitor · Council of Europe urges Germany to uphold freedom of expression amid Gaza protests – Middle East Monitor<br /> <b>Warning</b>: Undefined variable $sm_desc in <b>/www/wwwroot/middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/themes/memouk/header.php</b> on line <b>159</b><br /> ...
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Strypey

The first half of this made more sympathetic to ZuckerBorg's position. Which made me puke into the back of my mouth as soon as I noticed it, but that's how unimpressive I found their discussion.

"Legacy media" is DOGE phrase. Huh? This was already a descriptive term for pre-digital media during Occupy.

nytimes.com/2025/01/10/podcast

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The New York Times · Meta Goes MAGA Mode + a Big Month in A.I. + HatGPTBy Kevin Roose
#podcasts#NYTimes#Platforner
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Strypey

"But there's also this weird reality where 20-30 years ago everybody on the left were the free speech absolutists. We wanted to democratise speech, and we did. And we empowered everybody to participate in stuff.

Then a bunch of people who we didn't realise were also being silenced by mainstream corporate media, used the tools we were creating, and started saying stuff, and doing stuff. And that ... is super complicated."

@rabble, 2025

decentered.co.uk/building-part

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Decentered Media · Building Participatory Media with Evan Henshaw-Plath (aka Rabble) – Decentered MediaIn this episode of the Decentered Media Podcast , Rob speaks with Evan Henshaw-Plath , widely known as Rabble , a technologist, activist, and early contributor
#FreedomOfExpression
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"This movement reflects a seemingly “common sense” principle: content depicting anyone under 18 sexually should be illegal, whether the subjects are real or virtual. But scratch beneath this consensus, and a more complex picture emerges—one that encompasses far more than AI-generated images. As researcher Aurélie Petit recently discussed with me, while AI deepfakes may grab the headlines, the end result of a zero-tolerance approach is that AI images are treated alongside fan fiction, art, memoirs, and more, principally from queer creators and women, all within the thought-terminating category of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

This article explores the views of a growing number of experts, including lawyers and psychologists, who challenge this approach, arguing that it drives over-criminalization, stifles artistic expression, disproportionately harms marginalized communities like LGBTQ+ individuals, and even obstructs effective sex abuse prevention efforts. Through these insights, we examine whether the rush to criminalize AI-generated content (and more) oversimplifies a complex issue—and what’s at stake when nuance is ignored."

c4osl.org/fiction-or-felony/

Center for Online Safety and Liberty · Fiction or Felony? The Blurring of Art and Abuse - Center for Online Safety and LibertyAn AI porn artist was sentenced to jail time today in the culmination of a major law enforcement operation. Here's why experts are concerned.
#FreedomOfExpression#AI#GenerativeAI
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Peter Ives is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Rethinking Free Speech (Fernwood, 2024).

We need to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals from knowledge production to democratic participation and individual expression.

Clashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, its meaning is persistently misunderstood and distorted.

Rethinking Free Speech will change the way you think about the politics of speech and its relationship to the future of freedom and democracy in the age of social media. Political theorist Peter Ives offers a new way of thinking about the essential and increasingly contentious debates around the politics of speech.

This presentation was recorded on June 2, 2025, as part of the Society"

socialistproject.ca/leftstream

#FreeSpeech#FreedomOfExpression#Democracy
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Frej 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

The @EUCommission Internal Security Strategy, #ProtectEU, includes a Technology Roadmap on encryption, raising concerns about law enforcement access to encrypted data. @edri and 39 organizations urge inclusion of experts and civil society for an evidence-based approach.

The consensus is clear: granting law enforcement access to end-to-end encryption creates #vulnerabilities.

edri.org/our-work/technical-ex

European Digital Rights (EDRi)Technical experts call on Commissioner Virkkunen for a seat on the table of the European Commission’s Technology Roadmap on encryption - European Digital Rights (EDRi)EDRi, in a group of 39 organisations and 43 experts, published an open letter today to call for a scientific evidence-based approach to encryption.
#E2EE#FreedomOfExpression#Privacy
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