Libyans who published a cartoon in favor of women's rights are being charged with "insulting Islam", plus similar crimes that amount to excuses for censorship. They could be executed.

If this is what Islam means, mere insults are not enough to do justice to it.

We should not defend them by arguing that the cartoon did not mention Muhammad, since that grants undue legitimacy to the idea that they would be wrong if they had.

Ecuador's new media law imposes punishments on reiterated criticism of anyone.

While this is not as bad as punishing a single instance of criticizing someone, it still violates freedom of speech.

Microsoft and others tell the NSA about security-related bugs before publishing fixes.

US citizens: object to prosecuting the man who collected evidence against the Steubenville rapists, who faces more imprisonment than they got.

Uri Avnery: Israel's greatest victory turns out to be its greatest problem.