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					Between Islamists and secularists: debating free speech in the Arab world
				
Sara Khorshid reports from a panel discussion that brought together former hate preachers, feminists and ordinary Arab youth to debate the limits of free speech in the new Middle East.

					Russia’s law on offending religious feelings
				
Helen Haft examines the case of a blogger prosecuted after an online argument and its implications for Russian free speech.

					What do artists say about freedom of expression in the arts?
				
Tore Slaatta investigates Norwegian artists’ views on their freedom of expression in contemporary society.

					Silencing India’s daughters
				
Vanya Bhargav explains the battle behind the Indian government’s ban on a BBC documentary about a notorious gang rape.

					What did the Buddha mean by ‘right speech’?
				
Matthew Walton explores the deeper Buddhist context of right speech – and soul-searching on Buddhist internet message boards.

					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

					Living in outrageous times
				
Peter Bradley argues that we should tolerate offence but be less offensive

					Free to fantasise? Pornography and its harms
				
Jo Fidgen asks what the hard evidence is for negative effects  of pornography on sexual behaviour. 

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

					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. 

					Should the LSE’s Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society have asked people to cover up people wearing religious t-shirts?
				
At the London School of Economics Students’s Union Freshers’ Fair members of the Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Student Society were asked to cover up their T-shirts displaying a Jesus and Mo cartoon. This panel discussion discusses the freedom to offend and how to balance freedom of expression and civility.

					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 ISPs be told to block “adult” content?
				
Internet Service Providers do not merely route data packets from end-to-end, but are heavily involved in monitoring  their customers’ online activities. Ian Brown discusses the implications of Britain’s suggested “voluntary” opting out of “adult content”, with little parliamentary and court involvement. 

					Egypt: the show is over
				
Bassem Youssef and the Egyptian struggle for freedom of speech.

					Jytte Klausen: Should Yale University Press have removed images from the Danish cartoon controversy?
				
Professor Jytte Klausen analyses and criticises Yale University Press’s decision to remove images of Muhammad from her scholarly book on the Danish cartoons controversy.

					Can Australia distinguish between art and pornography?
				
Kim Wilkinson examines the case of celebrated Australian artist Bill Henson, who caused controversy in 2008 with his photography that featured images of naked teenagers.  

					Opt-in for porn? Then why not for religion?
				
Leslie Green, a distinguished legal philosopher who has written extensively about issues of obscenity and pornography, challenges our case study on online porn filters.

					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.

					Does a British Museum exhibition turn porn into art?
				
Katie Engelhart visits a shunga exhibition at the British Museum, and asks if the sexually explicit can be art. Along the way she explores issues of artistic intent and temporality. 

					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.

					Should society tolerate all forms of art?
				
We regularly highlight comments that have made an impression on us. FSD user Perreaoult argues that Art has to be completely free as an instrument of expression. 

					When and where should extremists be allowed to march?
				
Protests held by far right groups in ethnically diverse areas are provocation, but banning them can have undesired effects. Josh Black looks at a ban on the English Defence League in East London.

					When does hate speech become dangerous speech? Consider Kenya and Rwanda
				
The forthcoming trial of Kenyan broadcaster Joshua Arap Sang poses vital questions about the connections between words and violence, argues Katherine Bruce-Lockhart.

					Child pornography and freedom of expression
				
Did the European Court of Human Rights wrongly considered the distribution of child pornography to be an exercise of freedom of expression in the case Karttunen v. Finland, asks Rónán Ó Fathaigh.

					Brigitte Bardot’s repeated convictions for inciting racial hatred
				
Should a world famous actress be allowed to denounce an ‘overpopulation’ by foreigners? By Michèle Finck.

					A Turkish journalist’s censored plea for press freedom
				
Kerem Oktem introduces our translation of a column by Hasan Cemal, which his newspaper, Milliyet, refused to print.

					Is the European Court of Human Rights merely defending the uncontroversial?
				
A famous case of state censorship in Austria highlights the tendency of governments to pander to the majority, leaving controversial views unprotected. By Michele Finck.

					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.

					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.

					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.

					“Speakers’ Corner” What should it mean today?
				
Peter Bradley describes a British initiative promoting free expression, public debate and active citizenship.

					Free speech as seen by a believer in an Abrahamic religion
				
Islam, Christianity and Judaism are often accused of wanting to restrict free speech. Dominic Burbidge suggests a radically different perspective, from inside the thought-system of the Abrahamic faiths.

					A right to lie about government?
				
In the landmark case of New York Times v Sullivan, in 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that criticism of public officials must be protected, even if some of the claims were inaccurate. Jeff Howard explains.

					Tarun Tejpal: How has investigative journalism in India changed in the last 20 years?
				
Indian journalist and writer Tarun Tejpal speaks about development and corruption in India, and the role of investigative journalism.

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

					Can Google’s algorithm slander a politician’s wife?
				
Type ‘Bettina Wulff’, the name of a former German president’s wife, into Google and the autocomplete function will add ‘escort’. Is this algorithmic addition a form of defamation? Sebastian Huempfer explores the case.

					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. 

					Eli Dourado: Why is anonymity important in ensuring transparency in international telecommunications?
				
The WCITLeaks.org co-founder discusses how anonymous uploads to his website are shedding light on the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications.

					Pussy Riot, Putin’s Russia and the Orthodox Church
				
Was punk band Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin performance in a Moscow church ‘religious hatred hooliganism’ or an artistic form of political dissent? Olga Shvarova considers the case.

					Elif Shafak on our common humanity
				
​Acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak discusses the limits to free speech, the cosmopolitanism of her novels and the art of coexistence. 

					Shoot the Boer: hate music?
				
In 2011, a South African court banned the anti-apartheid song “Shoot the Boer” after ruling it hate speech, writes Nimi Hoffmann.

					Hitler’s Mein Kampf as satire
				
The German comedian Serdar Somuncu recites extracts from Mein Kampf to highlight the absurdity of Hitler’s propaganda, writes Sebastian Huempfer. 

					China’s human flesh search engines
				
While China’s human flesh search engines can help reveal government corruption they can also be used to humiliate ordinary citizens, writes Judith Bruhn.

					Censoring The Scorpions
				
In 2008, six British ISPs blocked access to a Wikipedia page featuring an album cover with an image of a prepubescent naked girl, writes Maryam Omidi.

					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. 

					Do anti-abortion protestors have free speech?
				
A pro-life campaigner and a pro-choice activist go head-to-head in this debate about the rise of US-style anti-abortion protests outside clinics in the UK.

					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 vital presence of the past
				
History is a sensitive issue in China with some of it desperately remembered and some, deliberately forgotten, writes Judith Bruhn.

					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.

					Media ethics & the Anders Behring Breivik trial
				
Killer Anders Behring Breivik’s testimony should be broadcast live to deter extremism, argues Anne Ardem, executive editor at Norwegian state broadcaster NRK.

					Free speech in Turkey & the world – part one
				
In the first past of this debate, research fellow Kerem Öktem argues that an individual’s understanding of free speech is shaped by their personal history and geography. 

					RapeLay: a virtual rape game
				
A Japanese video game that involved raping women was banned three years after its creation following an international outcry by women’s groups.

					Broadcasting a massacre
				
In March 2012, self-proclaimed jihadist Mohammed Merah strapped a camera to his chest before killing seven people in France. Al-Jazeera TV channel opted not to show the footage, writes Jeff Howard.

					The preacher against homosexuality
				
In October 2001, an Evangelical Christian preacher called Harry Hammond held up a placard saying, “Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism.” When Hammond refused to stop, a policeman arrested him. Timothy Garton Ash discusses an instructive case.

					Does Salman Rushdie exist?
				
“The one thing not at issue in the Jaipur controversy was some theologically motivated attack on the freedom of expression,” writes historian Faisal Devji. 

					Irshad Manji on Allah, Liberty and Love: Why offence is a sign of truly free speech
				
The director of the Moral Courage Project says so-called ‘respect’ for Muslims is often lined with fear and “low expectations” of those practising the faith.

					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

					Is criminalisation an effective way of eradicating fascism?
				
The co-chair of the German Green Party tells Free Speech Debate that fascist ideologies cannot be banned and must be confronted in a democratic way.

					Blasphemy law and violence in Pakistan
				
In 2009, Aasia Bibi, a Christian Pakistani woman was accused of blasphemy. The governor who called for a review of her case was killed two years later, writes Ayyaz Mallick.

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