Tag: freedom of speech
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The Bible vs freedom of speech: Double standard
Free speech is not what they claim. It is not neutral, it is not honest. It does not defend truth—it defends power. Today, one tweet can destroy your life. A satirical meme? Hate speech. A scientific graph? Misinformation. A religious critique? Censorship. What about the Bible? And yet, the Bible—violent, tribal, soaked in blood—gets protected.…
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Religious extremism in the Digital Age and freedom of speech
The internet has transformed religious extremism, allowing radical ideologies to spread faster and reach broader audiences than ever before. While religious extremism has existed for centuries, digital platforms now provide extremists with tools for recruitment, propaganda, and mobilization. The challenge today is not just countering these narratives but doing so without infringing on fundamental rights…
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Censorship, auto-censorship, and post-Snowden era
I live in a country that experienced all of this. Hardcore censorship, auto-censorship, and – finally – the post-Snowden internet era. There is an ongoing, finitely not answered question of whether there are more naive people who grew up in totalitarianism or people who grew up in a functional democracy. We can be aware of…
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Freethinking activism – make change happen
My article of freethinking activism aims to promote causes so much omited from our daily lives and their absurd pace. There are atheists, humanists, LGBTQ+ people, secularists, and last but not least – the very freethinkers. They assume their position as no privilage – as something automatical. In reality, however, it is something our peers…
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Why Marx’s Capital couldn’t be published or be influential nowadays
Karl Marx’s “Capital” is a work in the field of political economy and has been widely studied and influential since its publication. And its consequences besides academia and intellectual circles? Millions of extrajudicial killings, gulags, famine, and repressed freedom of speech, but also alleviating the negative attributes of capitalism: full employment, solid salaries, free healthcare,…
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Total parody of freedom of speech in academia
They say the freedom of speaking is most important. So academicians have a pretty difficult job to do because there is no freedom of speech. Promoting eugenics? The world of superhuman intelligence, zero criminals, no illnesses, wars or capitalism. You are dead to me! Not only races are not the same but they possess different…
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Stalin as a freedom of speech proponent
We are living in a perverse world where only limited freedom of speech exists (excluding the USA). You can say something and you will be prosecuted. It is allowed to speak some opinions, but only those one suitable to the ruling elites. And if you touch some powerful groups you will be run over by…
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The selective human rights enforcement by the USA
Human rights consist of democratic freedoms, freedom of speaking, and economic rights. The US only cares about democratic freedom and freedom of speaking. Why not the economic rights? Because it doesn’t serve its purpose. They want the countries to be democracies in order to be able to invest in them more. Of course, there are…
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European parody of freedom of speech
They say freedom of speech is embedded in the constitutions of many European countries. But what kind of freedom of speech do they mean? You cannot loathe the Romani people, Jews, adhere to Nazism, promote ideologies that repress human rights. The tattoos are banned and so on. I remember an article published in some Czech…