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					Glasnost! Nine ways Facebook can make itself a better forum for free speech and democracy
				
Free Speech Debate co-authors an Oxford-Stanford report on Facebook.

					Teresa M. Bejan discusses ‘mere civility’, disagreement and the limits of toleration
				
Lewis Willcocks talks to Dr Teresa M. Bejan, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, about her recent book ‘Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration’ (Harvard University Press) and what early modern debates over religion can teach us about diversity and discourse in the twenty-first century. 

					Solving the political ad problem with transparency
				
Customised news undermines democratic debate, argues Seth Copen Goldstein

					The UK can show the way on platform regulation. But not by treating Facebook and Google as publishers
				
Mark Bunting argues that the tech giants should accept ‘procedural accountability’.

					Las Vegas: the US is racked with impossible divisions over rights and freedoms
				
Todd Landman explores the contradictions between the American Constitution and the freedoms it seeks to preserve.

					Don’t blame news polarisation on the internet…it’s not the technology, stupid!
				
The internet does not guarantee polarised news, argues Richard Fletcher.

					The internet alone will not set Africa free
				
Iginio Gagliardone explores the surprising technopolitics of two competing visions of the internet, US and Chinese, in Ethiopia.

					Should I go to that conference in Hungary?
				
Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze

					Is there a universal right to free speech and what are its limits?
				
Timothy Garton Ash in conversation with Nigel Warburton, as part of the Philosophy in the Bookshop series at Blackwell’s, Oxford.

					Ben Wizner, Edward Snowden’s lawyer: To what extent should government be allowed to curtail civil liberties for the sake of national security?
				
Ben Wizner, Edward Snowden’s ACLU lawyer, reflects on the state of and importance of the right to free speech in 2017. He argues we must not overuse the term ‘national security’ or surrender our right to privacy because we have nothing to hide, for we would not deny somebody the right to free speech because they had nothing to say.

					Data visualisations: why facts don’t speak for themselves
				
William Allen calls for a robust debate of how data are presented.

					Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’
				
Eric Heinze argues that the radicals and liberal grounds for free speech are not mutually exclusive.

					From censorship by government to censorship by terrorism
				
Paul Cliteur and Tom Herrenberg, editors of a book on The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law, consider the changing nature of censorship.

					Wikipedia at 15: The sum of human knowledge?
				
Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in residence at Oxford University, considers the active encyclopedia’s first 15 years.

					Is dangerous speech free speech?
				
Expression can be dangerous, but that should not necessarily make it a crime. Jeffrey Howard evaluates the best argument for banning hate speech. 

					Noam Chomsky: Does America have uncensored, diverse, and trustworthy media?
				
Noam Chomsky talks about Edward Snowden, laws regulating historical memory, no-platforming, internet echo chambers and the lack of diversity in the American media.

					Citizens United: how the US Supreme Court struck down limits on corporate electioneering on the grounds of free speech
				
Max Harris analyses the case and the applicability of US First Amendment rights to corporations.

					Chicago university’s free speech policy
				
Timothy Garton Ash introduces the report of a committee on freedom of expression at the University of Chicago

					Evgeny Morozov on the dark side of internet freedom
				
Evgeny Morozov highlights the dangers that can emerge when governments and corporations harness the internet to serve their own objectives.

					Policing the internet for extremist material
				
Josh Cowls discusses the Oxford Internet Institute’s report on the complexities of balancing security and privacy online.

					When is speech dangerous?
				
Jonathan Leader Maynard examines the difficulties in assessing and managing the role of speech in violence.

					‘No-platforming’ on university campuses: political correctness and the subversion of free speech
				
Monica Richter argues that no-platforming is more about censoring unpalatable views than protecting marginalised groups.

					US landmark ruling on net neutrality
				
Dana Polatin-Reuben examines the fiercely contested 2015 FCC rules and their free speech implications.

					Whose finger should be on the trigger?
				
Sarah Glatte explores the controversy over trigger warnings and asks whether they help or hinder free speech. 

					Should ‘revenge porn’ be illegal?
				
Max Harris explains how Britain legislated against it and compares this with the position in other common law countries

					John Naughton: Are private superpowers a threat to free speech?
				
John Naughton discusses the state of the internet, net neutrality and private companies.

					Has Demotix democratised journalism?
				
Demotix founder Turi Munthe discusses the role of citizen journalism and Demotix in today’s media environment.

					Google grapples with the ‘right to be forgotten’
				
Katie Engelhart attends the public hearing of Google’s Advisory Council, set up in response to a European Court of Justice judgement.

					How can you tell what’s banned on the internet?
				
Joss Wright describes the technical and ethical challenges in investigating online censorship.

					Salman Rushdie: What have been the most important changes to free speech in the last 25 years?
				
25 years after the fatwa and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Salman Rushdie discusses with Timothy Garton Ash whether there is now more or less freedom of expression in Europe, worrying developments in India and his critical view of Edward Snowden. 

					US Supreme Court strikes down law creating ‘buffer zone’ around abortion clinics
				
In the case of McCullen v Coakley, the US Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling about restrictions on speech around abortion clinics.  Max Harris explains.

					National security and privacy: striking the balance
				
Anthony Lester and Zoe McCallum discuss the need to balance national security and privacy in the age of internet surveillance.
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