Turkey’s new reform bill
The Turkish government has proposed a bill that will suspend all media offences committed before December 2011. But will the draft law actually improve press freedom, asks Funda Ustek.
Why we need a right to be forgotten
The right to be forgotten should give us greater control over the data we post about ourselves online, writes Sebastian Huempfer.
Facebook, Privacy and You
Is the age of privacy over? Lord (Richard) Allan from Facebook and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete, go head to head on privacy and the right to be forgotten in the internet era.
Threats of violence stifle free speech in India
For some, Valentine's Day means chocolate and roses. For a group of Indian writers it has become an opportunity to reclaim freedom of expression in India.
Maldivian president was pathbreaker for freedom of expression
Deposed president Mohamed Nasheed will always be remembered as the man who brought free speech to the Maldives, writes Maryam Omidi.
Twitter’s new censorship policy
Twitter's plans to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis led to an angry backlash by users. Judith Bruhn looks at the microblog's policy in more detail.
Lost in translation?
Our international team of Oxford University graduate students has translated almost all of our editorial and specially commissioned content - a demanding task given the cultural and semantic differences across languages. You can find out more about the difficulties they faced in our Lost in translation? blog posts. This week, Maryam Omidi takes a look at "civility".
