Freedom of Expression
A Better Way to Regulate Online Hate Speech: Require Social Media Companies to Bear a Duty of Care to Users
August 9, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Tech Against Terrorism Response to the EU’s Terrorist Content Online Regulation
August 9, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Innocent Users Have the Most to Lose in the Rush to Address Extremist Speech Online
August 7, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
The Challenge of Drawing a Line between Objectionable Material and Freedom of Expression Online
August 6, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Terrorist Content Online and Threats to Freedom of Expression: From Legal Restrictions to Choreographed Content Moderation
July 31, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Chapter 10: On free public communication and terrorism online
September 18, 2023The basic issue that this chapter examines is how we set morally justifiable limits on what people say online, with a specific focus on speech acts related to terrorism. The chapter takes as one of its foundational assumptions that there are situations in which free speech, while an important and potentially fundamental right, can be ...
Open letter on behalf of civil society groups regarding the proposal for a Regulation on Terrorist Content Online
September 18, 2023The undersigned human rights and digital rights organizations call on the participants of the trialogue meeting on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of Council on preventing/addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online to comply with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and discuss further amendments that fully respect freedom of expression, ...
One year since the Christchurch Call to Action: A Review
September 18, 2023This brief analyses the impact of the Christchurch Call to Action, issued to gather countries and technology companies to stop the use of the internet for disseminating violent extremist content. The Call was the result of a summit organised shortly after a terrorist attack in New Zealand in March 2019. This brief finds that the ...
Far-Right Extremism: Is it Legitimate Freedom of Expression, Hate Crime, or Terrorism?
September 18, 2023Following the rise in far-right inspired terrorist attacks globally, social media and electronic communications companies have been criticized, mainly by politicians, for allowing far-right extremist content to be available. This article is a comparative legal study focusing on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S.’ legal provisions regarding the right to freedom of ...
The Legal Response Of Western Democracies To Online Terrorism And Extremism
September 18, 2023Extremists and terrorists have found the online sphere, and specifically its social networks, to be an efficient tool for advancing their methods and political needs. The legal responses to the resulting threats from this online activity vary from country to country. The immense importance of the Internet in the everyday life of billions of people ...