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7. October, 2020

Consultation response: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill

Our written submission to the Scottish Parliament on the Hate Crime and Public Order Bill. See our contribution see here. See a list of contributions. Brief summary of our views: Whilst welcoming the abolishment of blasphemy, we are concerned about (i) the freedom of expression implications of the Bill (ii) the integration of speech and actual physical violence

Consultation response: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill

7. October, 2020

21. August, 2020

Clear and Present Danger - Free Speech and Racial Justice: Friends or Foes?

In May 2020, protests erupted all over the U.S. after a video emerged of a white police officer killing a black man named George Floyd. Millions took to the streets in support of racial justice under the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter.” Most protests were peaceful, but several cities experienced large-scale violence. Free speech

Clear and Present Danger - Free Speech and Racial Justice: Friends or Foes?

21. August, 2020

Clear and Present Danger - Free Speech and Racial Justice: Friends or Foes?

31. July, 2020

Clear and Present Danger – Special Edition – Suzanne Nossel

In this Special Edition, we will zoom in on current challenges to free speech – specifically in the US. With me to discuss this timely subject, I have CEO of PEN America, Suzanne Nossel, who has just published her new book Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. The conversation evolves the main conclusions

Clear and Present Danger – Special Edition – Suzanne Nossel

31. July, 2020

Clear and Present Danger – Special Edition – Suzanne Nossel

29. May, 2020

New report: Digital Freedom of Speech and Social Media

Every year, over 500,000 comments are deleted from five Danish Facebook pages – do you know who is deleting yours? A new report on the deletion of comments on the Facebook pages of Danish news media shows that, for every deleted comment subject to criminal liability, 36 ordinary expressions of opinion are deleted. A total

New report: Digital Freedom of Speech and Social Media

29. May, 2020

New report: Digital Freedom of Speech and Social Media

19. October, 2020

Free to Disagree: SNP hate crime bill flouts international human rights law

The Scottish Government’s Hate Crime Bill flouts international human rights law and poses a “dire risk” to freedom of expression”, according to Danish legal experts. Justitia, an international judicial think tank based in Copenhagen, warns that draft ‘stirring up hatred’ offences in Part 2 of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill breach the

Free to Disagree: SNP hate crime bill flouts international human rights law

19. October, 2020

Free to Disagree: SNP hate crime bill flouts international human rights law

15. October, 2020

Reason: German-Style Internet Censorship Catches On Around the World

“This raises the question of whether Europe’s most influential democracy has contributed to the further erosion of global Internet freedom by developing and legitimizing a prototype of online censorship by proxy that can readily be adapted to serve the ends of authoritarian states,” Justitia, a Danish judicial thinktank, warned in a 2019 report. It’s no surprise

Reason: German-Style Internet Censorship Catches On Around the World

15. October, 2020

Reason: German-Style Internet Censorship Catches On Around the World

9. October, 2020

CPJ: Germany revisits influential internet law as amendment raises privacy implications

On October 1, a new law to regulate content posted on social media platforms took effect in Turkey, The Guardian reported. Turkish journalists already face censorship and arrest because of social media posts, CPJ has found, and the law offers just one more tool to censor news. Yet the legislation was not solely conceived in Ankara; it follows the example of one of

CPJ: Germany revisits influential internet law as amendment raises privacy implications

9. October, 2020

CPJ: Germany revisits influential internet law as amendment raises privacy implications

9. October, 2020

Politico: Germany’s balancing act – fighting online hate while protecting free speech

Late in the evening on June 1, 2019, Walter Lübcke, a local German politician, sat on the terrace outside his house on the outskirts of Kassel when a man crept up on him, aimed a gun at his head and shot him just above his ear. The man, a neo-Nazi, had crossed paths with

Politico: Germany’s balancing act – fighting online hate while protecting free speech

9. October, 2020

Politico: Germany’s balancing act – fighting online hate while protecting free speech