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When the Global Freedom of Expression (GFoE) initiative was launched in 2014, the leading concerns facing freedom of expression were violence against journalists, arbitrary imprisonment,…
When the Global Freedom of Expression (GFoE) initiative was launched in 2014, the leading concerns facing freedom of expression were violence against journalists, arbitrary imprisonment,…
1. Most important first amendment case law in recent years, and why? (Explain how you would define important.) Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 561 U.S.…
This article first appeared on the National Law Review In Europe Scandinavia is a region known for very high standards when it comes to freedom…
Call for Applications: Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute July 30- August 10 APPLY NOW! The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and…
The Freedom of Expression Association (“İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği – IFÖD”), based in Istanbul, released EngelliWeb’s 2022 report The Constitutional Court in the Shadow of Criminal…
It is more than two years since the military seized control in Thailand and established a military junta called the National Council for Peace and…
The following article was first published by EURACTIV. The German NetzDG law to counter illegal online speech has become a prototype for internet censorship in…
On 24th March, 2015, the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as unconstitutional, in Shreya Singhal v.…
This decision widens the scope of freedom of expression by considering that blocking or filtering internet search results by name is less acceptable in cases where the contested information refers to professional life of an individual and is in the public interest. When balancing freedom of expression against the right to be forgotten, the Court gave prevalence to the former by highlighting the fact that web users and potential patients have a right to access information in a free manner about persons of public interest in the private sector. Right to access information thus, gives way to the right to be forgotten when dissemination of such information is in the public interest.