The U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a challenge to the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order, which reclassified broadband service as a telecommunications service, subject to common carrier regulation, and obligated providers to promote Net Neutrality.
India’s Supreme Court, on May 13, 2016, upheld a 19th century criminal defamation law, adjudging it to be Reasonable because of its exceptions and Proportional because it promotes social harmony by balancing Freedom of Expression and the Right to Reputation.
The Oslo Magistrate’s Court of Norway convicted three persons of aggravated violence motivated by racism for assaulting and shouting racist hate speech to two Norwegian nationals of Kurdish origin.
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and to advance understanding of the norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression.