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3 days ago · List of the best movies involving personal liberties being taken away. This list features award-winning movies that tackle the issues of personal liberty and the right as a human being to live freely.
3 days ago · The three-part series Free To Speak underscores how free speech is necessary for human survival as it presents thought-provoking, ironic, and often heartbreaking stories. Host Nadine Strossen is joined by journalists, scholars, and activists to examine the power and controversy of free speech historically and today. Stream NorCal on Roku, Apple ...
Jan 1, 2009 · The Birth of a Nation, perhaps one of the most controversial movies in U.S. history, premiered as The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 to be met with both rousing approval and indignant condemnation.
4 days ago · Hollywood has made several films dealing with First Amendment issues from freedom of religion to free exercise of political speech. One example is the classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), pictured here, which glorifies the use of the filibuster, a legislative tactic relying on the Senate’s tradition of unlimited speech.
In a provocative new book, Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom: The Dangerous Allure of Censorship in the Digital Era, he argues that such bans—while often well-meaning—are almost always counterproductive, creating more problems than they solve.
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2 days ago · Restrictions on free speech are only permissible when the speech at issue is likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest.