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CEO , background diverse; opinions my own. Author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech in Our Time (HarperCollins, 2020)

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  1. Dec 7

    A new and potent threat to democracy: that the term itself becomes drained of all meaning.

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  2. Nov 21

    Admire Prez Steve Simon for refusing 's stunts. Great that Peng Shuai is alive and well but a staged video conference w Bach does nothing to allay concerns that she's been silenced under threat of god knows what

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    Nov 18

    TOMORROW: Who controls what we learn? Join us for Educational Gag Orders: A Virtual Roundtable with experts , Sumi Cho, , , Randall Kennedy & to discuss & defend academic freedom. Register: .

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    Nov 18

    Scoop: Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote letter appealing directly to US senators to confirm Biden's nominee to be ambassador to NATO. Julie Smith's nomination was sent by the White House to the Senate in June

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  5. Nov 16

    Key step by and Chinese govt to restore access for expelled media outlets. Next Q is whether, with visas restored, journalists will actually have the freedom to do their jobs without harassment and intimidation

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    Nov 14

    In my convo with we discuss the relatively recent censoriousness of the Left but she argues that the Right is still worse; e.g., legislation banning CRT. It's one thing to be against it, quite another to outlaw it. Sets dangerous precedence.

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    Nov 9

    "You can’t say you support free speech and say you support these bills." PEN America CEO and director of free expression and education speak with about PEN America's new report on educational gag orders.

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    Nov 8

    “You can’t say you support free speech and say you support these bills,” Friedman said. Nossel added: “Or even be silent about them.”

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    Nov 4

    There is more moral courage here than is to be found in the entirety of the governing bodies of HK's public universities.

    According to Chinese University Student Press, some graduating students at Chinese University of Hong Kong displayed the names of students jailed over their roles in the protest of 2019, along with a sign that says “we are graduating, but they couldn’t.”
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  10. Nov 1

    WAR ON BOOKS: Texas governor launches a war on books, calling on school boards to purge libraries and syllabi of pornography or undefined "inappropriate content." This is a frontal attack on freedom of thought.

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  11. Oct 28

    Since you were wondering: What Mark Really Means When He Talks About the - by my colleague

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    Oct 26

    "The CCP sees its continued reign as dependent not only on its long-standing practice of severely restricting speech inside China but also on dictating global narratives about China." Read PEN America CEO 's latest piece in : .

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    Oct 25

    Today is my father Ilham Tohti’s 52 year old birthday. I often get asked by journalists about which one is my favorite photo of my father. I usually pick this one. This pic was shot in my old Nokia phone back on Feb 2nd, 2013- my last time seeing him at the Beijing international

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  14. Oct 16

    Stunning that it is news to anyone that being home with newborns=work. Saying parental leave is mainly for bonding assume the existence of another 24-hour a day caregiver. Kudos for alerting the world to what women have known for millennia

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    Oct 13

    By bringing about public recognition of an urgent cause, the Nobel Prize can spark meaningful change both for the individuals involved and for the principles and values for which they stand, writes .

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    Oct 13

    PEN America CEO writes about the significance of and Dmitry Muratov's recognition as this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipients, giving a "needed boost to unflinching, fact-based journalism."

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    Oct 12

    Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right

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  18. Oct 10

    Grim to see reputable U.S. law firm carry Beijing govt's water in pressing removal of Tiananmen statue , cravenly signing the letter with the name of the firm, rather than any attorney. Willing complicity in repression.

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  19. Oct 8

    Forced dismemberment of a monument will not erase the memory. The once renowned demands removal of statue. Another sign of how academic, artistic and other freedoms are vanishing in

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    Sep 29

    “It’s hard to conceive of any explanation for this action other than an American tech firm censoring its users at the apparent behest of the Chinese government," our CEO said of 's decision to censor journalists and writers.

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