free-speech
No One Should Be Kicked Out of the Military for Hating the President
Hamilton Nolan · 04/26/12 09:41AMAmerican Gets 2.5 Years for Posting Unflattering Quote About Thai King
Seth Abramovitch · 12/07/11 11:36PMCollege Streaker Falls on Penis, Causes Controversy
Maureen O'Connor · 11/09/11 12:35PMHotel Fires Employee for Loving His Country
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 12:22PMCollege Bans Student for Complaining About Branded Debit Cards
Lauri Apple · 10/13/11 09:12AMCommunity college student Marc Bechtol says he was pulled out of class and then banned from campus all because he disparaged his school's stupid branded debit cards on his Facebook. Marc Bechtol deserves a failing grade in Campus Brand Ambassadorship 101, otherwise known as An Introduction to Selling Out.
Muslim Students Convicted of Being Mean to Israeli Ambassador
John Cook · 09/23/11 03:39PMRich Idiot Stops Trying to Sue Paper for Saying True Things
Max Read · 09/11/11 02:10PMRidiculous Stick Figure Sex Doodle Ad Rejected by Newspaper
Maureen O'Connor · 09/08/11 01:58PMAd hominem adultery harassment site Cheaterville.com is incensed. They wanted to run the above advertisement in the Toronto Sun during the Toronto Film Festival, but the Sun rejected them. Why ever would a newspaper reject a crude doodle of a stick-man butt-fucking a startled stick-lady atop a rectangular void with his giant club-shaped dick?
High School Girls Have the Right to Upload Lewd Pictures
Ryan Tate · 08/16/11 07:22PMCoffee Shop's Stupid Lawsuit Against the New York Times Tossed
Lauri Apple · 08/13/11 01:28PMA judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit filed by "Brooklyn-born and bred" coffee shop Gorilla Coffee against the New York Times—upholding the paper's right to report on mean things that people say about each other during disputes. Kind of an important part of a newspaper's job, if you think about it.
Woman's 'Obscene' Truck Nutz Land Her in Court
Lauri Apple · 07/27/11 04:13PMSupreme Court Says Videogames and Classical Literature Are No Different
Adrian Chen · 06/27/11 11:07AMGOP Senator: 'Free Speech Is a Great Idea, But We're in a War'
Max Read · 04/04/11 01:37AMBritish Man Found Guilty of Publishing 'Terrorist Information'
John Cook · 03/09/11 03:30PMTerence Brown is a British man who sells The Anarchist's Cookbook—not the original one, but an updated version with information from all the latest terror movements—for $35 on CD-ROM. He was just convicted of violating England's Terrorism Act, and the judge warned him that he will almost certainly go to prison.