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					Law and historical memory: theorising the discipline
				
Free expression should not be considered as ‘just another’ human right. Any truly participatory political system cannot exist without it nor any legal system linked to such politics, argues Eric Heinze.

					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’.

					Attacked, threatened and criminalised: LGBTI freedom of speech in Nigeria
				
Jude Dibia explores the criminalisation and violence faced by the LGBTI community after the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act.

					For all that is changing, free speech is still ‘under siege’ in Nigeria
				
Bill Snaddon discusses political reform in Nigeria and the prosecution of the killers of Nigerian writers and journalists.

					The Jawaharlal Nehru University affair
				
Udit Bhatia discusses the Indian government’s use of colonial-era laws against sedition and its failure to protect protestors taken into police custody.

					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.

					Rafael Marques and defamation law in Angola
				
Andreia Reis examines the prosecution of Rafael Marques and how free speech has been constrained in Angola.

					Free speech and the duty of loyalty
				
Sissel Trygstad examines employees’ rights in Norwegian workplaces.

					Who decides what is ‘extreme pornography’ that could send you to jail?
				
Clarissa Smith examines the flawed narratives underlying pornography laws in the UK.

					Why we should defend the right to be offensive
				
Free speech can make for uncomfortable listening, argues Roger Scruton, but it needs to be defended even when it gives offence.

					‘Lee Kuan Yew is Finally Dead!’ blogger prosecuted
				
Julian Simmons examines a Singaporean’s expletive-laden video on the recently deceased leader and his conviction for wounding religious feelings.

					In India, the censor’s razor is here to stay
				
Udit Bhatia explores the changing nature of state censorship of film in India and prospects for the future.

					Why ‘no-platforming’ those who peddle hate speech does not pose a free speech issue
				
Purushottam Vikas engages with criticisms directed at a controversial petition regarding an Oxford India Society speaking event.

					Is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights setting regional standards?
				
Laura Bernal-Bermudez examines a judgement that actually led to a change in the Chilean constitution

					The battle for balance on Ireland’s airwaves
				
Declan Johnston explores whether regulatory requirements for Ireland’s broadcasters worked well in its referendum on same-sex marriage.

					El daño cultural que representa de la pornografía de violaciones
				
Erika Rackley y Clare McGlynn consideran la evidencia de este «daño cultural» y argumentan que la educación es la mejor manera de hacerle frente.

					Ha sido Francia hipócrita sobre la libertad de expresión?
				
En la sombra de los asesinatos de Charlie Hebdo, Arthur Asseraf examina la historia de los dobles estándares de la Francia colonial en Argelia.

					Can a book be too dangerous for the public?
				
Sebastian Huempfer examines the tortured controversy around republication of a copyright-free Mein Kampf in Germany.

					Law restricting online speech struck down in India
				
Max Harris examines a historic judgment by India’s Supreme Court and its lessons for other countries. 

					Italy and the law on denialism
				
Luigi Cajani explains how Italy’s draft law on the denial of international crimes minimises the impact on intellectual freedom. 

					¿Debería ser ilegal la “porno venganza”?
				
Max Harris explica cómo ha legislado Gran Bretaña en contra de la “porno venganza” y lo compara con la posición de otros países de derecho común.

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

					How and why Hong Kong’s press downplayed the ‘umbrella movement’ of 2014
				
Rebecca Wong describes the combined pressures of Chinese political power and the interests of media proprietors.

					What is right speech and why is it important?
				
Leslie Green argues that Buddhist ideas  about avoiding divisive, abusive and  false speech can help us live together well in free societies

					¿Libre para fantasear? La pornografía y sus perjuicios
				
Jo Fidgen discute la tensión entre el consumo de pornografía violenta y su efecto en la conducta sexual.

					How the British press  distorted reporting of… the British press
				
Martin Moore, of the Media Standards Trust, summarises an analysis of British press coverage of proposed new press regulation.

					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.

					Religion: Sample our intellectual buffet. Or make your own meal.
				
Timothy Garton Ash introduces a sample tour of the content on our site. 

					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.

					Should Europe introduce a right to blasphemy?
				
Alain Bouldoires talks to Timothy Garton Ash about the survival of blasphemy laws in Europe, and calls for a ‘right to blaspheme’.

					Vote for Hong Kong – on the streets and online
				
In 2014, the citizens of Hong Kong staged an unofficial civil referendum in protest against the Beijing authorities’ attempts to undermine its independence. As Rebecca Wong reports, the majority of the votes were cast via a voting app on mobile phones.

					A landmark Canadian hate speech case: Her Majesty the Queen v Keegstra
				
In 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a famous ruling in a case involving a high school teacher and alleged anti-Semitism.  Max Harris explains.

					¿Se le debería decir a los proveedores del servicio de internet que bloqueen el contenido “para adultos”?
				
Los Proveedores del Servicio de Internet no solamente dirigen paquetes de datos de un punto a otro, sino que están bastante involucrados en monitorear las actividades en línea de sus clientes. Ian Brown discute las implicaciones de la sugerencia en Gran Bretaña de “voluntariamente” optar por no tener acceso al “contenido para adultos”, con poca participación del parlamento o las cortes. 

					EU versus intellectual freedom?
				
In a bid to synchronise hate crimes, the EU is seeking unity amongst members states against the denial of historical injustices. Is this the EU versus member states’ appreciation of intellectual freedom? Luigi Cajani explains.

					How an attempt at ‘libel tourism’ rebounded on a Tanzanian tycoon
				
A British citizen blogged about a Tanzanian media magnate involved in throwing her and her husband off their Tanzanian farm. He sued for libel in a British court. Dominic Burbidge explains.

					Eatock vs Bolt: un caso Australiano controversial sobre el discurso del odio
				
Max Harris explica por qué el periodista Andrew Bolt fue encontrado en violación del Acta Australiana de Discriminación Racial por artículos sobre “los Aborígenes de piel clara”.

					The long struggle to bury speech crimes in the English-speaking world
				
Anthony Lester and Zoe McCallum look at how the ghost of the English Court of the Star Chamber has been used to suppress free speech. 

					Nineteen arguments for hate speech bans – and against them
				
Free speech scholar Eric Heinze identifies the main arguments for laws restricting hate speech and says none are valid for mature Western democracies.  

					Is it a crime to offend bread?
				
For one taxi company in the Russian town of Kostroma, the answer turned out to be yes. Sergey Fadeev explains.

					Assessing the state of free speech in Norway
				
University of Oslo professor Tore Slaatta describes a pioneering project to evaluate freedom of expression in a whole country.

					Britain’s proposed online porn filters
				
How do we strike the right balance between freedom of expression and child protection? Sarah Glatte explores a proposal by the British government.

					Internet access in the age of the surveillance state
				
Oxford University’s Ian Brown asks what Europe can do to protect our digital rights and privacy. 

					¿Es Facebook sólo la nueva cámara de comercio y Twitter el nuevo telégrafo?
				
El teórico político Rob Reich discute qué adaptaciones necesitamos a medida que la libertad de expresión y de asociación se mueve rápidamente del mundo desconectado al mundo conectado. 

					Who is tracking the trackers? Use “Collusion” to find out.
				
The debate raised by revelations of NSA surveillance has drawn our attention to how we are being tracked online. Sebastian Huempfer describes a new tool to show us how those electronic cookies crumble.

					Why ramp up internet surveillance in Nigeria?
				
The Nigerian government is rumoured to have sealed a $40m dollar contract for internet surveillance technology. There is no clear justification for this “secret” deal, and no assurance that the technology would be used fairly, given Nigeria’s lack of established rights for citizen privacy. By Nwachukwu Egbunike and Dominic Burbidge.

					Why did the famous Indian painter M.F Husain feel he had to leave India?
				
Shruti Kapila, Patrick French and Faisal Devji discuss freedom of expression and the arts in India.

					The UN’s search for international consensus on free speech
				
 Josh Black hears the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, discuss the quest for shared laws and standards.

					Can a law-abiding liberal democracy be Big Brother?
				
Jeff Howard explores the legal basis on which the US is collecting vast amounts of data on foreign and US citizens, despite the Fourth Amendment.

					Whistleblower’s argument
				
Edward Snowden was not the first NSA official to sound the alarm. Thomas Drake, winner of the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, makes his case to Free Speech Debate.

					Martha Nussbaum: How can we best approach the challenge of religious difference?
				
Legal philosopher Martha Nussbaum gave the 2013 Dahrendorf Lecture, exploring how to live with religious diversity.

					Cuando quedarse callado es hablar
				
Stephen Meili compara el tratamiento que reciben las personas que se niegan a declarar su lealtad política en el Reino Unido y en Estados Unidos.

					¿Necesita la India su informe Leveson?
				
Arghya Sengupta analiza el intenso debate sobre la regulación de los medios al que se enfrenta la India, y la sombra del “Estado de emergencia” de la década de 1970 que se cierne sobre las diferentes alternativas, desde la fallida autorregulación a una propuesta de ley para crear un organismo supervisor de la prensa.

					The bizarre story of how lippy librarians faced down a silly publisher
				
A university librarian faced a lawsuit over a critical blog post about the publishing house Edwin Mellen Press but online solidarity won out. By Dominic Burbidge.

					Is privacy getting lost in Google’s «cracks and crevices»?
				
A globally-effective privacy regime is a realistic goal, argues Ian Brown. But it needs giants like Google to get behind it.

					¿Un derecho a la privacidad? No a las expensas de la libertad de expresión!
				
Nuestro usuario imos.org.uk discute con uno de nuestros cuatro principios cuestionando la idea de que la privacidad es una condición para que haya libertad de expresión. 

					Jesus Christ Superstar? Not in Rostov, Russia
				
The Russian parliament’s vote in support of a declaration against acts offending religious sentiments is symptomatic of worrying trends, write Olga Shvarova and Dominic Burbidge.

					Free Speech Bites
				
Nigel Warburton spoke with Timothy Garton Ash for Index on Censorship’s Free Speech Bites about the Free Speech Debate Project and global free speech standards.

					The ‘Brandenburg test’ for incitement to violence
				
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court made history by ruling that, to merit conviction, the violence advocated must be intended, likely and imminent. By Jeff Howard.

					¿Cuándo se hace peligroso el discurso de incitación al odio? Tome en cuenta a Kenia y Ruanda
				
El venidero juicio contra el locutor Joshua Arap Sang plantea importantes interrogantes sobre las conexiones entre las palabras y la violencia, alega Katherine Bruce-Lockhart.

					Pornografía infantil y la libertad de expresión
				
En el caso Karttunen v. Finlandia, la Corte Europea de Derechos Humanos consideró con muy poco análisis independiente o razonamiento que la distribución de pornografía infantil es un ejercicio de la libertad de expresión. El fracaso en proveer principios que sirvieran como directrices en dicho caso es una limitación que la corte tendrá que enfrentar en el futuro, escribe Rónán Ó Fathaigh.

					Las repetidas condenas de Brigitte Bardot por incitar odio racial
				
¿Se debería permitir a una actriz de fama mundial denunciar la “sobrepoblación” por extranjeros? Por Michèle Finck.

					El sistema de alerta de derechos de autor: ¿más cerca de tu hogar?
				
La cuestión de cómo responder a una mayor diseminación no autorizada en el internet de materiales protegidos por los derechos de autor ha preocupado a los propietarios de los derechos de autor. Pero la propuesta de establecer un sistema de alerta de derechos de autor potencialmente erosiona la libertad de expresión, escribe Graham Reynolds.

					¿Libertad para la historia? El caso contra las leyes de memoria
				
Josie Appleton habla con Pierre Nora y Olivier Salvatori sobre la iniciativa Liberté por l’Histoire en Francia.

					¿Quién debería vigilar al Guardian?
				
Alan Rusbridger, editor en jefe del periódico inglés el Guardian, afirma que la Gran Bretaña necesita libertad de prensa y una reforma en su sistema regulatorio fallido. Debido a que esto requiere tiempo y mayor transparencia, un nuevo regulador independiente de prensa debería ser establecido y puesto a prueba por un año.

					Libertad de expresión y las armas en Libia
				
Los medios libios están paralizados con el legado de Gaddafi. Sin nuevas regulaciones, y sobre todo con la necesidad de tener el coraje de confrontar la intimidación violenta, la libertad de expresión continua siendo un sueño lejano, escribe Jerry Timmins.

					Prohibido preguntar, prohibido decir
				
Las leyes de protección de datos ahora afectan la vida de todos pero aquellos que viven en la Unión Europea próximamente verán cambios altamente restrictivos en las regulaciones, escribe David Erdos. Ha llegado el momento para que aquellos que trabajan en la investigación académica alcen la voz. 

					¿Birmania retrocede hacia los tiempos de la censura?
				
A pesar de sus argumentos a favor de la libertad de prensa, el gobierno ha creado una sorpresiva iniciativa que contiene provisiones muy opresivas y que vulneran al Consejo de Prensa que creó con anterioridad, escribe Ellen Wiles.

					Has the Strasbourg court allowed too much for local taboos?
				
At the European Court of Human Rights, the case of I.A. against Turkey in 2005 acted as a controversial precedent for limiting Article 10’s definition of freedom of expression in the name of religion, explains Michele Finck.

					La filosofía de expresión pública en China: ¿un caso de poca teoría?
				
La postura del gobierno chino sobre la libertad de expresión está orientada por una compleja pero inteligente filosofía. Rogier Creemers hace un diagnóstico de lo que está en juego. 

					Una intimidación cibernética que condujo a un suicidio
				
El 10 de octubre de 2012, la adolescente canadiense Amanda Todd se suicidó luego de años de intimidación y acoso cibernético. Judith Bruhn describe un impactante caso.

					Publicaciones Académicas de Acceso Abierto: ¿van por el modelo dorado?
				
El mundo de la publicación académica se encuentra en una encrucijada, en la que las instituciones públicas exigen el libre acceso a las investigaciones financiadas con fondos públicos. Dominic Burbidge explora las dificultades que se atraviesan en el camino.

					Can the treatment of animals be compared to Nazi concentration camps?
				
Not in Germany, said the German courts. And the European Court of Human Rights agreed. 

					¿Existe un derecho a mentir sobre el gobierno?
				
En el caso hito del New York Times v. Sullivan, en 1964, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos decidió que la crítica a oficiales públicos debe ser protegida, incluso si algunas de las aseveraciones son inexactas. Jeff Howard explica el caso.

					Pressing for freedom: the protest over China’s “Southern Weekly”
				
The Chinese Communist Party aims to control privately owned media without appearing to do so. A strike at a local newspaper imperils that balance, writes Liu Jin.

					La práctica de la libertad
				
La líder por la democracia birmana Aung San Suu Kyi señala la importancia de la libertad de expresión pero enfatiza la idea budista del “hablar correcto”.

					Ten cuidado con lo que retuiteas en Filipinas
				
Una nueva ley contra los crímenes cibernéticos en Filipinas dará poderes irrestrictos al estado para monitorear a los usuarios de internet, quitar páginas de internet y encarcelar ciudadanos, escribe Purple S. Romero.

					The Nira Radia tapes controversy and the right to privacy
				
Should government-initiated phone hacking be made public if the recordings are in the public interest? Shubhangi Bhadada exposes the thin line in India between the right to privacy and freedom of expression.

					Arundhati Roy on national security & the Indian media
				
The award-winning Indian novelist and activist speaks to Manav Bhushan about the limits to free speech in India, including government censorship through the media and «goon squads».

					El futuro de la libertad de expresión
				
El activista de derechos humanos Aryeh Neier habla sobre el futuro de la libertad de expresión.

					Las razones por las cuales Ruanda y Libia necesitan libertad de expresión y regulación de los medios
				
Jerry Timmins describe un nuevo reportaje sobre los medios de dos sociedades en período de postconflicto y alega que países como Gran Bretaña deberían hacer más para apoyarles.

					Why did Facebook delete a call for an anti-fascist rally in Hungary?
				
Facebook’s automatic detection of the word ‘Jude’ led to the blocking of A Hungarian anti-fascist group’s post. Tamas Szigeti explores the worrying implications of automatic filtering for freedom of speech.

					A sticky WCIT and the battle for control of the internet
				
At the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), authoritarian governments staked worrying claims. But the US-dominated model of non-governmental internet governance brings its own problems, writes Alison Powell. Beware of the Clinton Paradox. 

					You can’t be serious!
				
The birthplace of western homo-erotica cuts a gay kiss from TV, writes Judith Bruhn.

					Should Russian speakers be obliged to learn Estonian?
				
FSD’s Olga Shvarova criticises the language-based discrimination ethnic Russians face in Estonia.

					The Kremlin’s grip tightens on Russia’s answer to Facebook
				
Russian social network VK launched six years ago and has since attracted 122 million users. But as Olga Shvarova explains, political and copyright crackdowns are limiting the free flow of information and ideas its users once enjoyed. 

					Yahoo, free speech and anonymity in China
				
In 2002 Wang Xiaoning was sent to prison for 10 years after Yahoo passed on personal information Chinese authorities used to identify him. Judith Bruhn explores a case of conflicting laws and moral expectations.

					Zambia’s secret freedom of information bill
				
If a decade of stalled attempts to enact Zambia’s Freedom of Information bill seems comical, there is underlying tragedy in how politicians have fallen short of their free speech rhetoric, writes Dominic Burbidge. 

					Censoring a billion voices to save a nation
				
Manav Bhushan, an Indian member of the Free Speech Debate team, makes the case for blocking hate-filled websites in his country.

					¿Es necesario tener un título para ejercer de periodista?
				
El Senado de Brasil restableció recientemente una ley que obliga a los periodistas a tener un título universitario. Por otro lado, una propuesta de enmienda constitucional podría restringir aún más la profesión. Un caso de Felipe Correa.

					La protesta de las Pussy Riot en una iglesia no fue más que disidencia políticav
				
Olga Shvarova analiza la actuación de la banda de punk Pussy Riot contra el régimen de Putin en una iglesia de Moscú ¿Fue dicha actuación “vandalismo de odio religioso” o una expresión artística de disidencia política?

					¿Por qué la “maquinaria armonizadora” de la Unión Europea debería mantenerse alejada de la historia?
				
Claus Leggewie y Horst Meier explican porqué las leyes sobre la memoria son el camino equivocado para recordar y debatir el difícil pasado de los europeos.

					Guilt by association: the London 2012 Olympics
				
The drive to control all references to the Olympic Games is part of a global creep of intellectual property law that has led to a «right of association», writes Teresa Scassa.

					Holanda aprueba la primera ley sobre la neutralidad de Internet en Europa
				
Las enmiendas aprobadas por el Senado de Holanda ponen límites a la libertad de los proveedores de Internet para bloquear o ralentizar aplicaciones y servicios. Por Graham Reynolds.

					Los “buscadores de personas” de China
				
Judith Bruhn analiza el fenómeno de los buscadores de personas en China, los cuales pueden ser herramientas útiles para combatir la corrupción política, pero también para someter a ciudadanos comunes a la humillación pública.

					La ley del genocidio armenio de Francia
				
En enero de 2012, el Senado francés aprobó una ley que penaliza la negación de cualquier genocidio reconocido por el estado. Un caso de Clementine de Montjoye.

					How should publishers respond to protests for and against the publication of the same essay?
				
In 2011, three Indian scholars called on OUP India to re-publish an essay which had been denounced by Hindu extremists. Less than two weeks later, the publisher reversed its earlier decision not to re-publish.

					Is pro-terrorist speech a crime? Massachusetts says so
				
In 2012, Tarek Mehanna was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison by a US court for conspiring to provide support to terrorists, writes Jeff Howard.

					Judge grills mogul: the uses of transparency
				
The public nature of the Leveson Inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal has been exemplary, writes Timothy Garton Ash.

					Landmark libel bill falls short of expectations
				
The new defamation bill fails to address some of the most important issues, including restrictions on the ability of corporations to sue for libel, writes Jonathan Heawood, director of English PEN.

					Richard Sambrook: What does the BBC mean by impartiality?
				
The former director of BBC Global News explains what  Britain’s historic public service broadcaster means by ‘impartiality’ – and why it has not always achieved it.

					The tension between data protection and freedom of expression
				
EU member states should reform the data protection framework to address the realities of life in the Web 2.0 age, writes David Erdos

					Punishing users of extremist websites
				
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed a law to punish readers of websites promoting terrorism and violence, writes Clementine de Montjoye.

					Teaching creationism in US schools
				
A new Tennessee law will permit teachers to discuss creationism alongside theories of evolution, writes Casey Selwyn.

					ACTA & the internet: freedom of expression & privacy
				
Join Free Speech Debate and ARTICLE 19 in London on Thursday 3 May  for a panel discussion on the impact of ACTA on global free expression

					Open government in Chongqing?
				
Environmental information is tightly controlled in China despite the existence of access to information regulations, writes Sam Geall.

					Why hate speech should not be banned
				
Restrictions on hate speech are not a means of tackling bigotry but of rebranding often obnoxious ideas or arguments are immoral, argues writer Kenan Malik.

					Los periodistas no tienen un derecho divino a invadir la privacidad
				
El principal experto sobre la libertad de expresión Eric Barendt defiende un reporte parlamentario en Gran Bretaña sobre la privacidad, de las críticas del periodista activista John Kampfner.

					Shami Chakrabarti: Why robust civility works from an ethical but not from a legal perspective
				
The director of civil liberties group Liberty calls for a review of all speech crime legislation in the UK.

					Hasan Cemal: Freedom of expression in Turkey
				
From communism to Kurdish separatism, the Turkish state has used a series of pretexts to deny freedom of expression to its citizens, says journalist Hasan Cemal.

					¿Pueden los cristianos llevar una cruz en el trabajo?
				
Dos cristianas recurren al Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos en su lucha por poder usar un crucifijo en el trabajo. Un caso de Dominic Burbidge.

					History reclassified as state secret: the case of Xu Zerong
				
In 2002, historian Xu Zerong was sentenced to 13 years in jail for leaking state secrets. The classification of the leaked materials as «top secret» came only after he had been sentenced, writes Timothy Garton Ash.

					Hungary’s new media regulation
				
In 2010, the Hungarian prime minister passed a series of laws, giving excessive control over all private media to the government, writes Peter Bajomi-Lazar, a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford.

					German legislation could hinder free flow of information
				
Germany’s draft ancillary copyright bill would force news aggregators such as Google News to pay German publishing houses when linking to news items produced by their newspapers, writes Maximilian Ruhenstroth-Bauer.

					Why defamation laws do not protect vulnerable holders of faith
				
Three human rights experts scrutinise the defamation of religion, which they argue misses the point by protecting faith but not vulnerable believes

					Patriot Act and FISA without end?
				
How the Obama administration continues use of Bush-era powers to suppress legitimate debate about the needs of US national security. By Jeff Howard.

					The harms of hate speech legislation
				
Hate speech legislation chills freedom of expression more than it protects vulnerable minorities.  Free speech lawyer Ivan Hare takes issue with Jeremy Waldron.

					El predicador contra la homosexualidad
				
En Octubre del 2001, un predicador Cristiano Evangélico llamado Harry Hammond sostuvo un cartel diciendo “Paren la Inmoralidad, Paren la Homosexualidad, Paren el Lesbianismo.” Cuando Hammond se rehusó a detenerse, un policía lo arrestó. Timothy Garton Ash discute un caso ilustrativo.

					Ezra Levant: «I don’t believe hate speech is a crime»
				
«If you don’t ever feel hate, you have a broken personality,» says Canadian lawyer and publisher Ezra Levant. 

					Los daños del discurso del odio
				
Jeremy Waldron, profesor de teoría política y social en la Universidad de Oxford, argumenta a favor de la legislación contra el discurso del odio.

					La huelga de hambre como libertad de expresión
				
El año pasado, Anna Hazare, un indio de 74 años que lucha contra la corrupción, emprendió una huelga de hambre como una forma de presionar al gobierno para que promulgara una legislación anti-corrupción. ¿Debería protegerse la huelga de hambre como forma de libertad de expresión? Manav Ghushan y Katie Engelhart ofrecen contrastantes puntos de vista.

					El Islam entre la libertad de expresión y el discurso del odio
				
La ejecución de apóstatas debe ser anulada pero insultar la religión debería ser reconocido como un crimen, escribe el clérigo Mohsen Kadivar.

					Orville Schell: What controls are beneficial to a free society?
				
China’s attempt to both capitalise on and control the internet is «one of the greatest experiments» in the country’s history, says Orville Schell of the Asia Society.

					The trial of Naguib Sawiris
				
Naguib Sawiris was accused of contempt for tweeting an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively sporting a bushy beard and veil, writes Jacob Amis

					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.

					La vida privada de un héroe nacional
				
Un documental representando al fundador de la República Turca, Kemal Atatürk, como un “alcohólico libertino” fue visto como un ataque a la “identidad Turca”, escriben Irem Kok y Funda Ustek.

					Tim Wu: Would the right to be forgotten hinder entrepreneurialism?
				
Tim Wu, the author of ‘The Master Switch’, says that while the right to be forgotten is a good idea in theory but wouldn’t work in practice.

					Yan Xuetong: When can a value such as free speech be considered universal?
				
For values to be considered universal, at least half the world should accept them, says Professor Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University.

					Tim Wu: Why do information empires fall?
				
Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, tells us why Facebook should not go into China and why Twitter’s new take-down policy may harm the microblog

					Should Germany have introduced a right to be forgotten?
				
Sebastian Nerz, the chairman of the German Pirate Party talks about ACTA, the right to be forgotten and privacy in Germany.

					Ezra Levant: Why public powers are the real threat to internet freedom
				
Private powers are not a «large threat» to free speech, the Canadian lawyer and publisher tells Katie Engelhart. 

					Does money have the right to speak?
				
The US supreme court’s decision on Citizens United raises a vital issue: should corporations have the same free speech rights as individuals? Brian Pellot discusses the case.

					The Stop Online Piracy Act
				
The Stop Online Piracy Act is currently being debated in the US house of representatives. Brian Pellot considers the potential consequences of the bill.

					Singh v the British Chiropractic Association
				
In 2008, the British Chiropractic Association launched a defamation lawsuit against science writer Simon Singh over an op-ed in which he suggested chiropractors lacked evidence for some of their medical claims. Maryam Omidi examines the case.

					Geert Wilders on trial
				
In 2011, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders was cleared of charges of group defamation, incitement to hatred and discrimination against Muslims. Rutger Kaput looks at the case.

					The principles should affirm the public’s right to information held by public bodies
				
Sandra Coliver, senior legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, says the right to information is essential for freedom of expression. 

					Article 19: freedom of expression anchored in international law
				
Jeff Howard explains what it means for a state to be a party to the ICCPR and how individuals can issue complaints about violations of free speech to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

					Críticas al Rey de Tailandia
				
El blogger de Estados Unidos Joe Gordon fue sentenciado a dos años y medio de prisión en un cárcel en Tailandia por publicar links en su blog a una biografía no autorizada del Rey de Tailandia Bhumibol Adulyadej. Un caso de estudio por Maryam Omidi.

					Libertad de expresión y privacidad
				
El Profesor Eric Barendt de University College London discute el delicado balance entre la libertad de expresión y la privacidad.

					La chica porno del cómic indio
				
La prensa fue crítica con la decisión de las autoridades indias de bloquear el acceso a Savita Bhabhi, un cómic online que narra las aventuras sexuales de Savita Patel, una ama de casa promiscua de insaciable apetito sexual. Maryam Omidi reflexiona sobre si ésta fue una decisión correcta.

					Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi: Should insults to religious beliefs be criminalised?
				
The Iranian lawyer and Nobel peace prize winner talks to Free Speech Debate about freedom of expression in Iran and whether insults to religious and non-religious beliefs should be criminalised.

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