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The social media giant’s third-party review panel upheld Facebook’s ban on Donald Trump. A corporate governance expert explains why Facebook created the Oversight Board.
No matter what tactics are used to muzzle, restrict, limit, or censor information, trustworthy information that serves the public good can still find its way to those who matter most: the citizens.
Saudi’s crown prince approved the killing and dismemberment of a Washington Post columnist in 2018, the Biden administration says. So how can the US still see the Saudis as good partners?
In a country where judicial review is not constitutionally guaranteed, hate speech legislation could shackle freedom of expression and limit citizens’ rights to express themselves.
The Constitutional Court judgment is a huge victory, not only for journalists and lawyers who stand to benefit directly and immediately, but for broader society.
Talks with the government ended with accusations that the dissenting artists were ‘paid by North American agencies’ – an age-old way to discredit dissent in Cuba. But these protests are homegrown.
Academic freedom is under assault around the world. Academics and students are being killed, injured, detained and disappeared in a pattern of disturbing increases in state repression.
The obscenity trial was a landmark decision that provided a “public good” defence for serious literature.
Macron wants to ‘build an Islam in France that can be compatible with the Enlightenment.’ But that goal assumes France is compatible with Islam, says a Muslim scholar of religion and politics.
The horrific death of Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, highlights the importance of the work of educators who are, more than ever, on the front lines of the fight for freedom of expression.
The campaign for ‘free speech on campus’ mimics US and UK tactics of using a manufactured crisis to further the goal of increasing conservative political influence in universities.
A constitutional law scholar says that the arguments made by anti-mask protesters that the Constitution protects their freedom to go maskless are just wrong.
False information about the new coronavirus is a big threat to containing the pandemic but governments must not use ‘fake news’ as an excuse to limit freedom of expression.
An absence of laws governing the digital space has allowed the government to tinker with internet accessibility as it sees fit.
Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia all punish blasphemy harshly – even with death. Such laws have political as well as religious motives, says a scholar on Islamism: They’re a tool for crushing dissent.
The former president’s stranglehold on the press made it very difficult for journalists to do their jobs.
Those teaching in publicly funded universities should be held accountable for denying the public record, whether in their classrooms or beyond.
There is a strong framework of international laws and conventions that defend free speech, but Uganda continues to limit freedom of expression especially when the people criticise their president.
We have a serious deficit in legal protection for human rights in Australia, rights that have been in regression for 20 years. We need a legislated charter setting out the rights we care about.
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Academic, Monash University
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Lecturer, Indonesia Jentera School of Law
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Lecturer in Law, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Department of Business Management, Nelson Mandela University
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Director of the Leaders of Africa Institute and Research Affiliate with Davidson College, Davidson College
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Charles Hadji is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professeur honoraire (Sciences de l’éducation), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Professor Emeritus of Education Law & Labor, University of New Hampshire
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Lecturer in Development Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate professor, London Metropolitan University
