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…Twitter — which once prided itself on being the “free speech wing of the free speech party” — is trying to figure out just how much of that support for free speech it needs to jettison if it’s going to stop being known as the harassment wing of the bigoted party. Read the full article at www.washingtonpost.com…
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…he ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and modern-day digital activists—Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise…
…gama described current forms of censorship as a historically observed “knee-jerk reaction” to a revolution in communications technology. Furthermore, the digital revolution poses unique challenges to the safeguarding of human rights. The “platformisation” of the internet through which meaningful engagement on digital platforms relies on access to mass audiences allows private actors to act as “choke points” for the spread of information. Read more…
…gama described current forms of censorship as a historically observed “knee-jerk reaction” to a revolution in communications technology. Furthermore, the digital revolution poses unique challenges to the safeguarding of human rights. The “platformisation” of the internet through which meaningful engagement on digital platforms relies on access to mass audiences allows private actors to act as “choke points” for the spread of information. Read more…
…ublished in 2016 with Oxford University Press. He has advised several inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, including Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists. Ourveena Geereesha Topsy-Sonoo Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, African Commission on Human and People’s Rights Nighat Dad Digital Rights Foundation – Oversight Board Joan Barata Stanford Cyber Polic…
…onal security”, says director Jacob Mchangama, Justitia. It is therefore recommended that: A) The predicted interference with the rights of travel should be accompanied by adequate procedural safeguards, including clear and precise rules, real and substantiated suspicion requirements and effective remedy B) New legislation should be accompanied by a socalled “sunset clause” whereby the law will expire on a predetermined date. C) The forthcoming le…
…ies abusing limits on free speech to silent dissent? In this first of a two-part episode on totalitarianism in Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany, we will focus on the rise of communism and Italian fascism and the effects of these ideologies on free expression. Hopefully this journey into the darkest of pasts will help shed light on how to grapple with one of democracy’s eternal and inevitable dilemmas: What should be the limits of…
…ies abusing limits on free speech to silent dissent? In this first of a two-part episode on totalitarianism in Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany, we will focus on the rise of communism and Italian fascism and the effects of these ideologies on free expression. Hopefully this journey into the darkest of pasts will help shed light on how to grapple with one of democracy’s eternal and inevitable dilemmas: What should be the limits of…
