RT Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs)The European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) claims to target only harmful content in Europe, but our analysis of the House Judiciary Committee's recent report reveals that the DSA pressures US tech companies, including X, to enforce censorship on a global scale—including American political speech. This conflicts with core US principles, as the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, which includes freedom of expressing ideas that may be controversial to s ...

As you go from British common law to the American constitution to Internet encryption, you get stronger protections on freedom of speech.And the actual battle over freedom of speech over the last decade wasn’t actually waged over the First Amendment (whose text remained unchanged) but over how Internet services would in practice moderate the speech of billions, most of whom were not American.That was really a struggle at the level of the international network, as opposed to the nation state.Andrew Benson (@ ...

So dear friends, dear colleagues, my speech today is a great chance to advocate not only for quality and responsible journalism but also for the for the necessity imperative necessity of its sustainability. In what follows I uh will use a short form of this idea. I will say QR journalism is not a new concept.Uh it's just a way to simplify my my speech today. Maybe in the world today are millions such speeches about journalism. But I don't care. I don't think they are enough.And beside that, I come here in f ...

Politicians are grappling with the boundaries of speech and direct action. Yet in both the furore over performances at Glastonbury, and the proscription of Palestine Action, heavy-handedness looks like the wrong response https://t.co/eH8Af2xDSI ...

First of all, we want to make sure that what has happened in California does not happen in Texas. Texas is a law and order state and we will use every tool that we can to ensure order across our state. That includes the deployment of Texas Department of Public Safety officers as well as Texas National Guard in strategic locations where they can provide the most robust response where needed.There is freedom of speech. H. However, if in your protest you damage somebody's property or you harm an individual, th ...