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Free speech debates

The controversy surrounding free speech, including campus disputes and government overreach.

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Jan 12, 2026
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Number of arrests in the UK over social media posts

The best available reporting indicates roughly 12,000 arrests in the UK in 2023 for communications offences that include social media posts, a figure widely cited by The Times and synthesised in Freed...

Jan 28, 2026

How do pro‑Israel groups and libertarian civil‑liberties organizations respectively evaluate Rand Paul’s Israel policy actions?

’s policy—marked by holds on military aid and vocal opposition to measures he sees as curbing free speech—draws sharp criticism from mainstream pro‑Israel organizations that view his actions as underm...

Jan 24, 2026

What do LGBTQ+ advocacy groups say about intentional misgendering?

advocacy groups describe as a harmful, targeted form of harassment and a tool of discrimination that contributes to real-world harm and mental-health impacts for transgender and nonbinary people, and ...

Jan 9, 2026

How many prosecutions and convictions followed online hate-speech arrests in England and Wales in 2024?

Official statistics do not report a single, clean tally of prosecutions and convictions that flowed specifically from “online hate-speech arrests” in England and Wales in 2024; instead the available f...

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