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Are we losing the media we need for democracy?

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 ‘Lenin-fall’: free speech and the politics of memory in Ukraine
OT Jones argues that the Ukrainian state should not restrict open historical debate but use its 'expressive' powers to foster a nuanced understanding of the past.
 The rise of a new orthodoxy
Secularism poses its own threat to free speech, argues Father Jordi Pujol.
 Are you sitting comfortably? How safe spaces became dangerous
We must distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate safe spaces, argues Eric Heinze.
 Don’t blame news polarisation on the internet…it’s not the technology, stupid!
The internet does not guarantee polarised news, argues Richard Fletcher.
 Bridging the deep digital divide in India
Only 17% of rural India has internet access. But citizen journalism is giving voice to minorities says Arpita Biswas.
 The archipelago of press restriction in Turkey
Emre Caliskan and Simon Waldman explain how Turkey became the world’s largest imprisoner of journalists.
 Russia: ‘The Church has an enemy in every home.’ It’s television.
Helen Haft explains how the Orthodox Church has eroded freedom of the media and lobbied for the 2013 law against offending religious feelings.
 Are we losing the media we need for democracy?
Timothy Garton Ash discusses the importance of and whether we are losing the media for democracy at the General Editors Network Summit 2017 in Vienna.
 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.
 Freedom of speech in Japan and the Designated Secrets Law
Arthur Stockwin explains the four main areas where free speech is under threat in Japan.
 Israel, no-platforming – and why there’s no such thing as ‘narrow exceptions’ to campus free speech
Eric Heinze argues that it is contradictory to the principles of free speech to criticise the Israeli ambassador to Britain online and then no-platform him at a university talk.
 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

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