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Free speech and the internet

Comment is free series about free speech and the Internet, in association with English PEN in the run-up to the conference No Frontiers: Free Speech and the Internet is a residential conference
  • Rafael Behr

    The rules

    Rafael Behr
    Rafael Behr: An etiquette guide to speaking out
  • Amnesty International: 50 years of service and its vision and relevance are undimmed

    Observer editorial: Amnesty's award to Azerbaijan journalist Eynulla Fatullayev reminds us that the battle for free speech must be won anew in every generation

  • Libel reform: curbing litigation is the only way we can truly have free speech

    Editorial: Simon Singh's victory is encouraging, but politicians must commit to libel reform or censorship will prevail
  • Jonathan Heawood

    As free as they decide we can be

    Jonathan Heawood

    Jonathan Heawood: Free speech online: The internet offers us an illusion of total freedom of speech. But simple changes to the law would protect us from censorship

  • Iranian 'blogfather' arrested, say reports

    The Iranian blogger known to millions as Hoder has reportedly been arrested by authorities in Tehran

  • The big business of net censorship

    Jo Glanville

    Jo Glanville: Free speech online: Clamping down on internet freedoms has been a lucrative enterprise for software manufacturers

  • Protection from preachers of hate

    David Toube

    David Toube: Free speech online: Yes, there are limits to free speech entitlement: I, for one, would not extend it to terrorists and their religiously-inspired apologists

  • Mutual Respect?

    Inayat Bunglawala

    Inayat Bunglawala: Free speech online: Blogs can broaden and democratise political debate. But without calm and reason, the message gets drowned in noise

  • Social censorship works

    Digby Anderson

    Digby Anderson: Free speech online: Ostracising those who stray from established codes of speech and behaviour benefits society as a whole

  • When thought itself becomes a game

    Jonathan Rée
  • Making the most of the blogosphere

    Asim Siddiqui
  • What children need is censorship

    Aric Sigman

    Aric Sigman: Free speech online: Why parents should act as real-time censors to combat the manifold threats the internet poses to children

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