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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.

					It’s the institutions, stupid!
				
Calvin Chan proposes a new framework for conceptualising free speech.

					South Africa’s long walk to freedom of expression
				
Free speech holds the powerful to account and is essential to ending apartheid’s legacy of division, argues Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi.

					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’.

					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 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.

					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.

					Silencing 140 characters: free expression and the internet in the Gulf
				
A seminar run by the University of Oxford’s Middle East Centre and Free Speech Debate on Free Expression in the Gulf, with Maryam al-Khawaja (Gulf Centre for Human Rights), Toby Matthieson (St. Anthony’s College) and Nicholas McGeehan (Middle East Researcher, Human Rights Watch). Chaired by Timothy Garton Ash

					Why the future of free speech depends on India
				
Timothy Garton Ash, speaking at the 2017 Jaipur Literary Festival, explains why the future of free speech depends on India.

					An introductory guide to the ten principles
				
Our social media team have created a new way to explore the 10 principles on Youtube.

					From another spectrum: the net neutrality debate in India
				
Nikhil Pandhi discusses the debate about net neutrality in India.

					The public voice in internet governance
				
James Fishkin and Max Senges describe how an innovative democratic mechanism was used at the global Internet Governance Forum to revive Athenian democracy and draw up plans for extending internet access to the next billion users.

					Russia tightens control of the internet
				
Yury Sorochkin describes the implications of the Russian government’s decision to ban Rutracker.org, the country’s most popular torrent tracker.

					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.

					Shirin Ebadi on the fight for free speech and human rights in Iran
				
A transcript of our conversation with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who spoke to Free Speech Debate about her book ‘Until We Are Free’.

					Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi: How has free speech changed in Iran?
				
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi talks to Free Speech Debate about her book Until We Are Free and the state of free speech and human rights activism in Iran.

					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.

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

					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.

					Fortress besieged: Russia’s nationalisation of the internet
				
Maksim Orlov analyses the Russian government’s attempts to substitute Russian for western internet services.

					Icebergs
				
We defend the internet and other systems of communication against illegitimate encroachments by both public and private powers.

					Mark Zuckerberg’s speech: a political statement about the future of Facebook?
				
Evelyn Walls explores how Facebook may navigate Chinese free speech restrictions as it seeks to enter the market.

					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. 

					What is the internet? From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
				
John Naughton discusses his book, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, with Timothy Garton Ash

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

					No pearls of free speech in Bahrain
				
Katie Engelhart spoke to Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab hours before he was sentenced to six months in jail for a Tweet.

					How a Weibo post gets censored
				
Jason Q Ng traces the path of a censored Weibo post and tracks keywords that trigger automatic review.

					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.

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