Government & Policy: Free Speech

Op-Eds

A Liberal Ayn Rand? [Huffington Post]

Were the Founding Fathers Media Socialists?

Big Government, not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech

Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters

War On Free Political Speech

Free Speech Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

Supreme Court Abets the FCC's War on Free Speech

The FCC's Plan to Censor the Internet

The Left and the Right vs. Free Speech

End the FCC's War on Free Speech

Jail Time for Blasphemy Under Religious Constitution

Free Speech Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

No Copyright Exceptions

Let Mergers Take Place

McCain-Feingold Violates Right to Free Speech

FCC Should Eliminate All Restrictions on Media Concentration

Don't Violate Verizon's Right to Free Speech

Free Speech Letters Archive

 

Articles

The Resurgence of Big Government
By Yaron Brook
The Objective Standard, Fall 2008.

 

Video & Audio

Memo to U.S. Editors: Reprint Muhammad Cartoons

A press release presented by Elan Journo

Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons
A panel discussion featuring Yaron Brook and Daniel Pipes (video panel)

Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons

 

Ayn Rand on Government & Policy

“Man’s Rights” (an article)

“Collectivized ‘Rights’” (an article)

“The Nature of Government” (an article)

Conservatism: An Obituary (audio lecture)

"Let Us Alone!" (audio interview)

The Nature of Rights (audio interview)

Objective Law (audio interview)

Politics of a Free Society (audio interview)

The Structure of Government (audio interview)

Censorship: Local and Express (audio lecture)

The Moratorium on Brains (audio lecture)

The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (audio lecture)

The Wreckage of the Consensus (audio lecture)

 

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"Freedom of speech means freedom from interference, suppression or punitive action by the government—and nothing else. It does not mean the right to demand the financial support or the material means to express your views at the expense of other men who may not wish to support you. Freedom of speech includes the freedom not to agree, not to listen and not to support one's own antagonists. A "right" does not include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort. Private citizens cannot use physical force or coercion; they cannot censor or suppress anyone's views or publications. Only the government can do so. And censorship is a concept that pertains only to governmental action."

—Ayn Rand, "The Fascist New Frontier," The Ayn Rand Column, p. 106

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