Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech in European (and Other) Democracies, with Prof. Jacob Mchangama

How does European free speech law differ from American free speech law, when it comes to "hate speech," blasphemy, and misinformation? Jane Bambauer and I welcome Jacob Mchangama, who is CEO of The Future of Free Speech; research professor of political science at Vanderbilt; the author of Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media and other works on free speech; Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression; and a trained Danish lawyer who is one of the leading experts in comparative free speech law.

You can also watch our past episodes:

• Protests, Public Pressure Campaigns, Tort Law, and the First Amendment
• Misinformation: Past, Present, and Future
• I Know It When I See It: Free Speech and Obscenity Laws
• Speech and Violence
• Emergency Podcast: The Supreme Court's Social Media Cases
• Internet Policy and Free Speech: A Conversation with Rep. Ro Khanna
• Free Speech, TikTok (and Bills of Attainder!), with Prof. Alan Rozenshtein
• The 1st Amendment on Campus with Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
• Free Speech On Campus
• AI and Free Speech
• Free Speech, Government Persuasion, and Government Coercion
• Deplatformed: The Supreme Court Hears Social Media Oral Arguments
• Book Bans – or Are They?

Comments

[AmosArch]

European Free Speech: Free Speech as long as the powers that be don't mind. Ie in same free speech policy in force through most kingdoms and nations throughout history, including the eras the europeans consider themselves so much better and more enlightened then.

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

I am watching this and thinking of the most excellent TEC , The European Conservative.

Fothcoming book by Mary Grabar will prove that FDR did not believe a word of this

““Freedom of conscience, of education, or speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president

HE persecuted the press. My point is , look at what people DO and not what they SAY