This story is more than a week old, but the case of how a line from the movie "Serenity", based on the moronically discontinued TV series Firefly, was used in a free speech crackdown is still worth a mention. Here is a video with Neil Gaiman, the SF writer, about the controversy. (H/T, Huffington Post). More commentary from FIRE, the group supporting individual rights in the US education system. M...

From bans on songs and leafleting to war against gossipy tabloids, 2011 was a bad year for free speech.

...Or just proof the rules are different for the High Priests of the Media. The Mail supports restrictions on free speech when it comes to you-know-what, but issues pious proclamations about the vital importance of the press being free to slime a dead guy.

A draconian law passed in Scotland yesterday blurs the distinction between hurtful words and harmful deeds.

US Vice-president calls on the Islamic world to safeguard the rights of women, free speech, and freedom of the internet

Scottish comedian Brian Limond (@daftlimmy) expressed how happy he would be when Thatcher dies and Louise Mensch, the Conservative MP for Corby, is horrified, horrified I tells you, that the BBC would employ such a man… Free speech includes the right to be offensive. It includes the right to describe an old woman in terms

The Scottish government takes steps to protect freedom of expression, under planned law to tackle religious hatred.

Far from being a symbol of ‘deep hatreds’ in Scottish society, sectarian abuse at Celtic/Rangers games is just part of the game - and banning it is an affront to free speech.

A football fan has been jailed for posting sectarian comments on the internet. Why aren’t civil libertarians alarmed?

It’s precisely because I believe freedom of speech so important that those who discredit and abuse it have to be constrained A possible translation: those who say things I don’t like should not have free speech.