Amazon and WikiLeaks- Online Speech

Corporate policies suppression of free speech

The First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees freedom of expression against government encroachment - but that doesn't help if the censorship doesn't come from the government.

Importantly, the government itself can't take official action to silence WikiLeaks' ongoing publications - that would be an unconstitutional prior restraint, or censorship of speech before it can be communicated to the public. No government actor can nix WikiLeaks' right to publish content any more than the government could stop the New York Times and Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers, which were also stolen secret government documents.

Wikileaks: media insurgency

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, answers readers' questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables.

Wikileaks have been deliberately placing some of its servers in jurisdictions that Wikileaks suspected suffered a free speech deficit in order to separate rhetoric from reality.

A conversation with Henri Cartier-Bresson

WikiLeaks

The extreme contrasts between the U.S. government's public pretenses and real-life actions.

Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah

When honour meets morality - RIZ KHAN - Al Jazeera English

Tzvetan Todorov. The Fear of Barbarians

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation—exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world—have provoked reams of commentary from all parts of the political spectrum, a frustrating majority of it hyperbolic or even hysterical.

The Arabs by Eugene Rogan