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No-platforming is turning supposedly ‘critically minded’ events into adolescent cheerleading sessions.
Algorithms can’t sort out the truth from the dross. People must become more social media savvy.
During the war, fear of being undermined by the enemy sparked restrictions on freedom of speech. As a result, thousands of Americans were prosecuted.
The government has not adequately explained what it is hoping to achieve by changing the wording of Section 18C.
Independent booksellers are increasingly seeing their role as, necessarily, an active, educative, political one.
How do we know what we think we know? Accuracy, care and rigorous method gets us somewhere there, especially on issues like racism.
Recent developments at the United Nations and the G-20 suggest that the well-known human rights to privacy and freedom of expression may soon be formally extended to online communications.
After witnessing a streamed suicide, users could sue for emotional harm. But it’s tricky to prove – and even trickier to hold Facebook accountable.
UC Berkeley had a duty to protect the free speech of right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and those protesting his appearance. But what are the limits of free speech when it comes to campus safety?
Neither Galaxy Research nor the Institute of Public Affairs think-tank discussed the most interesting data they garnered from polling on free speech and reform to Section 18C.
Now, more than ever, the US press must shine a light on the workings of the Trump administration.
The darknet, like the open internet, is not immune from illegal activity. But many darknet users are there in search of ‘hacker ethics’ values such as privacy and free speech.
Fleet Street is up in arms against a law they say will kill investigative journalism. That simply isn’t true.
Americans enjoy a right to free speech, and some public figures really exercise that right. The Constitution might not protect them the way they think it does, though.
Are we seeing Orwell’s dystopian vision of 1984 coming to fruition?
How can journalists resist a master media manipulator, reach local communities and sift through fake news and propaganda? Media experts explore the challenges of covering the next administration.
Highly restrictive speech codes are now the norm in some of the world’s universities.
EU law needs to recognise that privacy and free expression are matters of colliding rights which can’t be wished away.
A more nuanced approach is needed to what upsets or disturbs people.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics., Griffith University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Professor Emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
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Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer, School of Law, University of Aberdeen
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Higher Education, University of Mississippi
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
