The Himalayan Times: UNESCO, Federal Parliament Secretariat Hold Discussion on Social Media Bill 2081

Posted on by Joan Barata in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, In the news, News

UNESCO, in collaboration with the Federal Parliament Secretariat, organized a discussion on the Social Media Bill 2081 with Members of Parliament from the National Assembly and House of Representatives. The workshop, held on February 5–6, convened parliamentarians from various parliamentary committees alongside national and international experts to review key elements of the proposed legislation and […]

Open Letter Urges UK Home Office to Withdraw Secret Orders Undermining Apple-User Privacy

Posted on by The Future of Free Speech in Consultation responses, Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, News Desk, Publications

We have partnered with TechFreedom and seven other civil society organizations to send two open letters addressing secret UK government orders pressuring Apple to break encryption on users’ cloud storage worldwide. Our letter to the UK Home Office warns that undermining encryption—a vital safeguard for free expression—violates the European Convention on Human Rights. Meanwhile, our […]

Tages Anzeiger: Where Does Freedom of Speech End?

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, In the news, News, Press Freedom

U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s accusations of censorship have angered Europeans. Many Americans, however, believe he is right—even though the White House itself restricts free speech. By Fabian Fellmann [ . . . ] Trump’s Own Assault on the Press More free speech would benefit Europe, agrees Jacob Mchangama. “Europe sees free expression too much […]

Persuasion: Europe Has a Free Speech Problem

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Digital Regulation, Disinformation, First Amendment, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, News, Our Perspectives, Press Freedom

By Jacob Mchangama Last week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance shocked an A-list group of European political and military leaders at the Munich Security Conference in Germany with a blunt message: Europe has gone too far in restricting speech. According to Vance, the main threat against European security does not emanate from Russia or China, but […]

Tech Policy Press: Will the DSA Save Democracy? The Test of the Recent Presidential Election in Romania

Posted on by Joan Barata in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, News, Our Perspectives

By Joan Barata Voting manipulation through social media platforms. Illegal campaign financing on TikTok. Cyber-attacks. Suspected Russian interference. The circumstances around Romania’s troubled December presidential election bear all the hallmarks of a modern political thriller. But the circumstances around the election and its annulment also present an opportunity to consider the application of Europe’s Digital Services Act […]

El Diario: EU Drags Its Feet in the Face of Musk and Zuckerberg’s Challenge Amid The Fervor of the Far Right

Posted on by Jordi Calvet-Bademunt in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, In the news, News, Online Content Moderation

By Irene Castro and Carlos del Castillo The spread of fake news and disinformation was one of the major issues facing the European Union during the last legislative period, when new legislation was introduced to regulate online life. The intention of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DSA) is to make […]

WSJ: Banning TikTok Would Violate America’s Free Speech Tradition

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff in Digital Regulation, Featured News, First Amendment, News, Our Perspectives

By Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff A heavy-handed new law forced TikTok to announce that it would shut down operations “within days.” Although the law left people without a popular forum to share and access information, a government official brushed off free speech concerns, saying that the ban did not mean “doom and gloom” for the […]

Le Point: Freedom of Expression: When Censorship Seduces Democracies, to Their Risks and Perils

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Digital Regulation, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, In the news, News

By Peggy Sastre The excerpt below is a rough English translation. Read the original in French here.  Jacob Mchangama, a Danish legal scholar and author of a notable history of freedom of expression from the time of Socrates to the era of social media, is now one of the most insightful analysts of this fundamental […]

The Center Square: Emergency Petition Urges Halt to TikTok ban

Posted on by Jeff Kosseff in Digital Regulation, First Amendment, In the news, News

By Shirleen Guerra The Liberty Justice Center filed an emergency petition alongside some TikTok creators, asking the court to halt the Jan. 19 ban until the U.S. Supreme Court gives its final ruling on the legal challenge. The emergency petition argues that the act violates the First Amendment because it bans all speech on TikTok, even […]