Russia’s Double Standard on Dealing with “Fake” News
Russia’s efforts to flood the media landscape in both the United States and the European Union with hacked emails and fake news have been well…
ECPMF ECtHR Conference e-book: introduction, presentations and conclusions
EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR PRESS AND MEDIA FREEDOM – ECPMF-ECtHR Conference e-book On March 24, 2017 the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom with…
Oman: Freedom of expression continues to be targeted
This report was originally published by The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and is re-posted here with permission and thanks. Freedom of expression remains…
Upcoming Conference – The State of Free Speech: Challenges and Solutions for a Digital Age, December 4, 2023
The Future of Free Speech (FFS) Project invites you to join its annual conference on free speech, which will take place in Stockholm on December…
U.S. First Amendment: Opportunities and Challenges
The First Amendment (and the rest of the Bill of Rights) was ratified in 1791, but largely ignored by the U.S. Supreme Court for 128…
RS Bharathi v. State
This decision of the Madras High is binding on the lower courts in the State of Madras. However, it needs to be noted that this decision was taken at a pre-trial stage while determination of the request to quash criminal proceedings under various hate speech enactments. Thus, the arguments relying on the observations of the Court for advancing arguments on merits would have limited persuasive value.
But Facebook’s Not a Country: How to Interpret Human Rights Law for Social Media Companies
Published in Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 38 (86-111), 2020 Abstract: Private social media companies regulate much more speech than any government does, and their…
Case of Lutsenko and Verbytskyy v. Ukraine
Internet Censorship 2020: A Global Map of Internet Restrictions
Introduction: Almost 54 percent of the world’s population (4.1 billion people) uses the internet. It’s our source of instant information, entertainment, news, and social interactions.…