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Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Librarians

Denmark Seeking Legal Means to Prevent Quran Burnings

Hong Kong Court Rules Against Government Ban of Protest Song

Mauritania: Student Charged with Blasphemy Over Exam Paper

The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education

Kenya’s young voters have a dilemma: they dislike ethnic politics but feel trapped in it

The Conversation1 day

ECJ to rule on whether Facebook needs to hunt for hate speech – TechCrunch

TechCrunchNov 30, 2019

Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit

Electronic Frontier Foundation9 hrs

Australia: Indigenous Senator Censured Over Royal Protest

Australia: Judge Rules Senator Violated Racial Discrimination Law

Brazil Lifts Ban on X

SCOTUS Rejects X's Appeal in Trump Data Case

Texas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X

TechCrunch5 days

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

New ScientistNov 20

[Peter Singer] A lesson from Trump’s campaign

Korea HeraldNov 19

How the Trump administration and congressional Republicans may crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters

Why changes to the block on Elon Musk’s X are driving users away

TechCrunchNov 07

Independent US Govt. Panel Calls for Secret Service Overhaul

Employees at Meta, OpenAI, Google Sign Letter in Support of California AI Bill

California Passes AI Regulation Bill

OpenAI Whistleblowers Allege NDAs Prevent Airing of Safety Concerns

Kash Patel Could Reportedly Get Key Trump FBI Or DOJ Role—Here’s Why Critics Are Worried

Trump's Director of National Intelligence Appointee Tulsi Gabbard Is on Terror Watchlist?

Journalists won’t be criminalised for holding some Australian government secrets after law reforms

Trial of ex-FBI informant indicted for lying about Bidens delayed amid new tax evasion charges

Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.

ProPublicaNov 14

Sutherland Springs Shooting Victims, DOJ Reach $144M Settlement

North Carolina Democrat Flips Parties, Gives Republicans Supermajority in State House

Spain Approves Teen Abortion, Menstrual Leave, and Trans Laws

J.K. Rowling and Nancy Mace are right: Women deserve their own safe spaces | Opinion

University of Austin weeds out DEI, replaces it with merit-based initiatives: VP

No topic or opinion off limits at new Texas college – a place where students, professors won't get "canceled"

The Surgeon General Issues a Parenting Advisory

Psychology Today18 hrs

We can't share Thanksgiving. You voted to deport people who look like me. | Opinion

‘We’d rather perish’: protests roil South Korean women’s university over plan to admit male students

Navalny's Widow to Run for President in Post-Putin Russia

Jailed Cuban Dissident Leader Wins Annual Human Rights Award

Russian Warships to Arrive in Cuba Next Week

China: Imprisoned Citizen Journalist's Sentence Concludes

British mother of Egyptian political prisoner to press Lammy to take action

11_Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces after 20 months

Korea HeraldNov 14

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades

The Conversation21 hrs

‘Always on and watching’: A former Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps – TechCrunch

TechCrunchNov 29, 2022

Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah

Electronic Frontier Foundation12 hrs