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As fight against hate speech heats up, Twitter launches new silencing tool by LU Staff

As fight against hate speech heats up, Twitter launches new silencing tool

LU Staff July 11, 2017
Image of the Day: Now you see it, now you don’t by Howard Portnoy

Image of the Day: Now you see it, now you don’t

Howard Portnoy June 7, 2017
Blacks want Whitney Museum to destroy white artist’s ‘racially insensitive’ painting of Emmett Till by Howard Portnoy

Blacks want Whitney Museum to destroy white artist’s ‘racially insensitive’ painting of Emmett Till

Howard Portnoy March 23, 2017
Google will now flag ‘upsetting’ and ‘offensive’ search results by Ben Bowles

Google will now flag ‘upsetting’ and ‘offensive’ search results

Ben Bowles March 17, 2017
‘Secret division’ of Facebook working on mind-reading technology? by Joe Newby

‘Secret division’ of Facebook working on mind-reading technology?

Joe Newby January 13, 2017
Cover-up: Supermarket uses ‘censor screen’ to block cover of tabloid with Trump’s picture by Ben Bowles

Cover-up: Supermarket uses ‘censor screen’ to block cover of tabloid with Trump’s picture

Ben Bowles December 29, 2016
Student journalists face backlash for stories that cast university in negative light by LU Staff

Student journalists face backlash for stories that cast university in negative light

LU Staff December 6, 2016
Morning in America? ‘Cosmo’ appears to have self-censored its own ridiculous PC article by Howard Portnoy

Morning in America? ‘Cosmo’ appears to have self-censored its own ridiculous PC article

Howard Portnoy December 3, 2016
While accepting press freedom award, CNN host calls for marginalizing global warming skeptics by LU Staff

While accepting press freedom award, CNN host calls for marginalizing global warming skeptics

LU Staff November 30, 2016
Judge refuses to order Cleveland Indians not to use name and logo while in Toronto by Ben Bowles

Judge refuses to order Cleveland Indians not to use name and logo while in Toronto

Ben Bowles October 18, 2016
Obama calls for ‘truthiness’ tests for media; decries ‘wild, wild West’ of new-media freedom by J.E. Dyer

Obama calls for ‘truthiness’ tests for media; decries ‘wild, wild West’ of new-media freedom

J.E. Dyer October 14, 2016
Sally Kohn: Conservatives feel unable to speak on campus? That’s a good thing by LU Staff

Sally Kohn: Conservatives feel unable to speak on campus? That’s a good thing

LU Staff September 17, 2016
NYU cancels lecture by co-discoverer of DNA because his scientific views are offensive by LU Staff

NYU cancels lecture by co-discoverer of DNA because his scientific views are offensive

LU Staff September 10, 2016
New York Times to fellow Clinton water carrier Google: You should hide ‘Hillary health’ links by Howard Portnoy

New York Times to fellow Clinton water carrier Google: You should hide ‘Hillary health’ links

Howard Portnoy August 23, 2016
Campaign email notes that if elected, Hillary Clinton will silence opposition media outlet by LU Staff

Campaign email notes that if elected, Hillary Clinton will silence opposition media outlet

LU Staff August 19, 2016
Facebook bans Middle East expert, says support of anti-terrorism violates terms of use by Joe Newby

Facebook bans Middle East expert, says support of anti-terrorism violates terms of use

Joe Newby August 17, 2016
Airlines are playing a lesbian movie in flight, but the LGBT community is up in arms: Why? by Ben Bowles

Airlines are playing a lesbian movie in flight, but the LGBT community is up in arms: Why?

Ben Bowles August 6, 2016
Ideological discrimination by San Jose? Protesters allowed to beat Trump rallygoers by Hans Bader

Ideological discrimination by San Jose? Protesters allowed to beat Trump rallygoers

Hans Bader June 3, 2016
Is Twitter suppressing the #NeverTrump hashtag? by Renee Nal

Is Twitter suppressing the #NeverTrump hashtag?

Renee Nal June 2, 2016
Obama administration harms students and young people in many ways by Hans Bader

Obama administration harms students and young people in many ways

Hans Bader May 26, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg will meet with ‘leading conservatives’ over claims FB censors rightwing news by Ben Bowles

Mark Zuckerberg will meet with ‘leading conservatives’ over claims FB censors rightwing news

Ben Bowles May 14, 2016
WH scrubs words ‘Islamist terrorism’ from video, but wait till you hear who the speaker is by Howard Portnoy

WH scrubs words ‘Islamist terrorism’ from video, but wait till you hear who the speaker is

Howard Portnoy April 1, 2016
Stuff that will get you arrested in the UK (while child rapists go free) by Benny Huang

Stuff that will get you arrested in the UK (while child rapists go free)

Benny Huang March 29, 2016
It’s come to this: HS forced to censor student play because it satirizes this topic by LU Staff

It’s come to this: HS forced to censor student play because it satirizes this topic

LU Staff March 16, 2016
Verified: Twitter’s ‘report a violation’ form includes this mind-boggling reason by Joe Newby

Verified: Twitter’s ‘report a violation’ form includes this mind-boggling reason

Joe Newby February 25, 2016
Twitter enlists gay thought police by Matt Barber

Twitter enlists gay thought police

Matt Barber February 14, 2016
Colleges are cultivating America’s first truly authoritarian generation by Benny Huang

Colleges are cultivating America’s first truly authoritarian generation

Benny Huang February 13, 2016
2015: Quite possibly the fakest year on record by Benny Huang

2015: Quite possibly the fakest year on record

Benny Huang January 2, 2016
Hillary vs. First Amendment: Watch the video candidate Clinton is trying to suppress by Ben Bowles

Hillary vs. First Amendment: Watch the video candidate Clinton is trying to suppress

Ben Bowles November 19, 2015
Meet the privileged Yale student who shrieked at her professor by LU Staff

Meet the privileged Yale student who shrieked at her professor

LU Staff November 10, 2015
Yale student unloads on faculty member for denying her ‘safe space’ by LU Staff

Yale student unloads on faculty member for denying her ‘safe space’

LU Staff November 8, 2015
‘White man’s diseases’ and other assaults on diversity: Why we can’t have nice things by Benny Huang

‘White man’s diseases’ and other assaults on diversity: Why we can’t have nice things

Benny Huang November 1, 2015
Banned in Britain: Toy animal depictions of ISIS by J.E. Dyer

Banned in Britain: Toy animal depictions of ISIS

J.E. Dyer September 26, 2015
Politically correct speech codes on campus ridiculed by … WHO? by LU Staff

Politically correct speech codes on campus ridiculed by … WHO?

LU Staff September 15, 2015
Castro’s latest demands on the U.S. will make you see red by Deneen Borelli

Castro’s latest demands on the U.S. will make you see red

Deneen Borelli August 16, 2015
You won’t believe which word a PC college language guide deems offensive by LU Staff

You won’t believe which word a PC college language guide deems offensive

LU Staff July 29, 2015
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