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'Swallowing Some Horse Pills For Liberty'
Over at the John Locke Foundation's Carolina Journal Online, Donna Martinez reminds readers, with the help of FIRE President Greg Lukianoff, that even speech with which one disagrees can be an integral part of discourse, as the cases of Alexandra Wallace and Snyder v. Phelps remind us.
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J. Edgar Hoover and the war on dissent
J. Edgar Hoover turned the FBI into a powerful crime-fighting agency — and one of the greatest threats to free speech in American history.
In defense of anonymity, the guard dog of free expression
Anonymity doesn't protect trolls — it protects everyone from abuse victims to dissidents. That's why attacks on anonymous speech threaten us all.
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The ‘papers, please’ era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Age verification is becoming identity verification. The result won’t be a safer internet — it will be a less private, less free one.