Ireland says free speech must be balanced with right ‘not to be misinformed’
Citizens’ rights to free speech must be balanced with their alleged right "not to be misinformed", a senior member of the Irish judiciary has said.
Hot Topic
Freedom of Speech
Popular articles tagged "Freedom of Speech"
Irish PM berates ‘showboating’ Elon Musk as online censorship row intensifies
Ireland's Prime Minister has accused US billionaire and owner of Twitter, now X, Elon Musk of "showboating" with his threats to challenge the country's coming anti-hate-speech…
X to launch legal challenge against Irish anti-hate-speech laws, Musk says
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, will launch a legal challenge against forthcoming anti-hate-speech laws in Ireland, its US billionaire owner…
Irish hate-speech bill must be ‘halted’, party youth branches demand
Ireland's forthcoming anti-hate-speech bill must be "halted with immediate effect", the youth wing of one of the country's ruling parties stated.
Banning Quran-burnings would not impede free speech, Danish PM claims
A Danish Government ban on Quran-burning protests would not represent any kind of assault on freedom of speech, the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen,…
Twitter takes legal action against Center for Countering Digital Hate
Twitter, now branded X, has pressed charges against an organisation that claims to fight online hate but is, according to the platform’s US billionaire owner Elon…
Commissioner insists EU online censorship law ‘is compatible with free speech’
Under the incoming law, certain social media firms that fail to censor speech the EU disapproves of will face being banned from the bloc within a matter of hours,…
Burning the Koran shouldn’t be illegal — but it is moronic
You are perfectly free and entitled to run full speed and headfirst into a brick wall. It is not illegal.
Ireland to delay talks on proposed hate-speech law
The Irish Government will postpone discussions over the country’s proposed legislation on hate speech.
Peaceful prayer cannot be banned outside abortion centres, rules top German court
Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has ruled that blanket bans on peaceful prayer groups outside abortion centres are not permissible.
Elon Musk, George Orwell, and the abuse of language: what the tech billionaire can learn about the cisgender wars from the novelist’s essay
On June 21 Elon Musk tweeted that the words cis and cisgender “are considered slurs on this platform”.
Twitter boss Musk folds on free speech in India, claiming he has ‘no choice’
US billionaire and Twitter owner, Elon Musk, seems less of a free-speech advocate than he would like the world’s public to think.
Does Twitter under Musk really believe in free speech?
Twitter has sparked a furore by restricting the launch of the controversial transgender documentary What is a Woman?
Elon Musk backlash over Twitter content block in Turkey
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who declared himself a staunch advocate of free speech, has found himself facing a barrage of criticism for censoring his…
Free speech has its limits, says Brussels Commissioner
The European Commission has to protect freedom of speech—by limiting it, according to the Commissioner responsible for media freedom and fundamental rights.