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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.

					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.

					5 podcasts and our 10 principles on the BBC
				
Timothy Garton Ash introduces his BBC broadcasts and online version of the Free Speech Debate principles.

					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.

					Luciano Floridi: What contribution can the philosophy of information make to our understanding of free speech?
				
Luciano Floridi, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford, speaks to Free Speech Debate about the philosophy of information, European data protection, and contemporary challenges to free speech.

					What happened to ‘the right to be forgotten’?
				
Free Speech Debate tells the story of the advisory council to Google on the right to be forgotten, and talks to council member Luciano Floridi.

					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.

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

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

					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.

					Germans are not especially concerned about privacy and sovereignty
				
Nazi past? Stasi past? Sebastian Huempfer challenges the conventional explanations for Germany’s strong reaction to Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA snooping.

					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. 

					Is Facebook just the new chamber of commerce and Twitter the new telegraph?
				
Political theorist Rob Reich discusses what adaptations we need as freedom of speech and association move increasingly from the offline to the online world. Can the old principles still apply in new circumstances?

					Does India need its Leveson?
				
India has its own fierce debate about media regulation. Arghya Sengupta discusses how the shadow of the 1970s “Emergency” hangs over proposed steps from failed self-regulation to statutory regulation.

					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.

					A right to privacy? Not at the expense of free speech!
				
Our user imos.org.uk argues with one of our draft principles challenging the idea that privacy is a condition for free speech.

					Who should guard the Guardian?
				
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, argues that Britain needs both a free press and reform of its failed regulatory system. Since this will require both time and openness, a new independent press regulator should therefore be given a year’s trial run.

					Mustn’t ask, mustn’t tell
				
Data protection laws now touch everyone’s lives and those living within the EU are about to have their regulations updated, writes David Erdos. These proposed laws are overly restrictive: the time has come to take a stand for those working in research.

					China’s public expression philosophy: a case of too little theory?
				
The Chinese government’s stance towards the question of free speech is guided by a philosophy that is complex but intelligent. Rogier Creemers diagnoses the underlying causes.

					Cyber-bullying that led to suicide
				
On 10 October 2012 the Canadian teenager Amanda Todd committed suicide after years of cyber-bullying and harassment. Judith Bruhn describes a shocking case.

					The crumbling fourth pillar
				
The Indian media is in danger of losing its moral compass to the pressures of the new capitalism. It may be a time for a boycott in order to stop the rot, argues Manav Bhushan.

					In the Philippines, be careful of what you retweet
				
A new cybercrime law in the Philippines would give unfettered powers to the state to monitor internet users, take down websites and imprison citizens writes 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.

					The future of free speech
				
Human Rights activist Aryeh Neier speaks about the future of free speech.

					Does a murderer have the right to be forgotten?
				
 In 2008 two convicted murderers asked for their names to be removed from Wikipedia and other online media outlets, in accordance with German law. Does the individual’s right to be forgotten take priority over the public’s right to know?

					Facebook’s over-zealous face tagging
				
Should Facebook automatically suggest who is in a photo? Sebastian Huempfer asks whether Facebook’s photo tagging software infringes the privacy of its users.

					Ahmed Mansoor on blogging his way into a UAE prison
				
One of the United Arab Emirate’s most prominent human rights activists, Ahmed Mansoor was imprisoned in 2011 for criticising the country’s leadership. Here he discusses the death threats, defamation campaigns and physical attacks he continues to face for speaking his mind. 

					The topless duchess
				
Judith Bruhn explores the theory and practice of privacy in Europe and whether a court injunction was enough to salvage the Duchess of Cambridge’s privacy. 

					Amelia Andersdotter: Why the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is dangerous
				
The Swedish Pirate Party’s outspoken MEP explains why the European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in July and discusses WCIT, the internet’s next four-letter foe.

					Evgeny Morozov: What is the dark side of internet freedom?
				
Author Evgeny Morozov highlights the dangers that sometimes emerge when governments and corporations harness the internet to serve their own objectives. 

					David Kirkpatrick: What is the Facebook Effect?
				
The author of The Facebook Effect talks to FSD about privacy, anonymity whether the social network plans to go into China.

					What not to wear
				
Maryam Omidi takes a look at banned clothing around the world – and concludes that women tend to be the target of dogmatic dress codes.

					The Iranian actress’s sex tape scandal
				
A leaked sex video resulted in Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi fleeing the country to avoid prosecution, writes Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili. 

					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.

					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

					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

					Journalists do not have a divine right to invade privacy
				
Leading free speech expert Eric Barendt defends a British parliamentary report on privacy against criticisms by campaigning journalist John Kampfner.

					Can Christians wear the cross at work?
				
Two Christian women are taking their fight to wear a crucifix in the workplace to the European Court of Human Rights, writes Dominic Burbidge. 

					Should you have to reveal your real name on Facebook?
				
Lord Allan of Facebook and author Viktor Mayer-Schönberger wrangle over the social networking site’s real name policy, its claim to transparency and its use of personal data. 

					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.

					On Free Speech: China, India and the art of ‘Zuckering’
				
The second episode of FSD’s monthly podcast looks at free speech in India, internet censorship in China and Facebook’s attitude towards privacy.

					(Not) reporting homosexuality in the Middle East
				
Media in the Middle East do not report gay issues in the same way as they would other news. By Brian Pellot.

					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.

					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.

					Britain’s proposed celebrity privacy register
				
Lord Justice Leveson’s proposal for a celebrity privacy register that would allow famous individuals to opt out of the media limelight has divided magazine editors, writes Sebastian Huempfer. 

					Google Street View in Germany
				
In March 2011, a Berlin court ruled that Google Street View was not illegal after a private citizen filed a lawsuit, claiming the technology was an infringement of her property and privacy rights. Sebastian Huempfer looks at the case. 

					Is online deletion a virtue or a form of denialism?
				
The first of Free Speech Debate’s monthly podcasts, featuring selected highlights from the site.

					The right of reply in Germany
				
Germany has a statutory right of reply in the media. Maximilian Ruhenstroth-Bauer explains a path to defending your reputation without going to court.

					Max Mosley: What is the difference between privacy and reputation?
				
The former head of Formula One racing’s governing body talks about the difficulty of countering sensational claims made in a globally reported tabloid story.

					What is privacy?
				
All known human cultures have had some notion of privacy, but what is seen as private has varied enormously with time and place.

					Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s ‘perp walk’
				
Was it right to make Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the IMF, do the “perp walk” after he was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York? Clementine de Montjoye argues no.

					Freedom of speech and privacy
				
Professor Eric Barendt of University College London discusses the delicate balance between free speech and privacy.

					The bank executive & the super-injunction
				
Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, came under public scrutiny when it emerged that he had allegedly had an affair at a time when the bank was heading for collapse. Maryam Omidi asks whether there was a genuine public interest in details of the alleged affair being revealed.

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