- “Victory for ‘Caveman’ Blogger in Free Speech Fight – the right to give advice about what to eat” [Institute for Justice, earlier]
- “Is an academic discussion of free speech potentially traumatic?” Given campus trends, it might soon be [Wendy Kaminer]
- Logic of rejecting heckler’s veto points likewise to rejecting its savage cousin, terrorists’ veto [Ronald Collins]
- Someone tried to yank a Minnesota urbanist’s engineering license because of things he wrote on his blog. It didn’t work [Strong Towns; compare first roundup item]
- Departing NPR ombudsman would take free speech law back to ’50s, and that means 1850s not 1950s [Volokh, earlier]
- The last time I saw Paris, it was making a fool of itself in litigation [Mediaite, Huffington Post, earlier on city’s threats to sue Fox]
- Argentina: state uses control over soccer broadcasts to beam propaganda denouncing opposition [David Kopel] “Dissenting voices silenced in Pakistan’s war of the web” [Jon Boone, Guardian]
Filed under: Argentina, bloggers and the law, colleges and universities, France, free speech, terrorism
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Re: Minnesota urbanist’s engineering license
First science fiction and then science fact.
Charles Marohn has a video at the link. The conversation reminds me of when the Vogons came to dismantle Arthur Dent’s house in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” They needed it for a hyperspace bypass.
Sure, he’s a rebel. But there is a larger point: We have to have rules, but if one size doesn’t fit all,we’ll need committees. Lots and lots of committees.