Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out IN A sense, this is a golden age for free speech. Your smartphone can call up newspapers from the other side of world in sec... Read more
DO machines speak? If so, do they have a constitutional right to free speech? This may sound like a fanciful question, a matter of philosophy or science fiction. But it’s become a real issue... Read more
As the United Nations has said, access to the Internet is a human right. A report by the U.N.’s special rapporteur presented last month to the Human Rights Council in Geneva warns that this... Read more
Free speech advocates and Internet users are protesting new Indian regulations restricting Web content that, among other things, can be considered “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” o... Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife In McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995) the Supreme Court overturned a statute requiring any person who prints a notice or flyer promoting a candid... Read more
Cover via Amazon Preamble “Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient—le mot n’est pas trop vaste—au genre humain. Toutes les intelligences y ont dr... Read more
Image via Wikipedia In the new issue of Index on Censorship, ‘Brave New Words’, leading internet experts Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski call for a new approach to tackling cens... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Wikileaks has provoked the dream of Iceland becoming a haven for whistle-blowing Iceland could become a “journalism haven” if a proposal put forward by some I... Read more