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17 Nov

Wikicensorship protest

Hard lesson: if you attempt censorship, you better hope it works.  A German politican who tried to stop information about himself being posted on Wikipedia backfired, garnering massive publicity for […]

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9 Nov

Muslims need free speech protection: report

Governments Should do More to Protect Freedom of Speech From Extremists Says New Report LONDON, November 10 /PRNewswire/ — Muslim reformers and critics of Islam around Europe are being silenced […]

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3 Nov

Freedom not a “get out of jail free” card

By Stephen Ward Being an ethicist in journalism today can be a strange and frustrating experience. I don’t ask for sympathy. I have a good life, thank you. Rather, I […]

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31 Oct

Live blogging “The Media’s Right to Offend: Exploring the Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech”

Live Blog: “The Media’s Right to Offend: Exploring the Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech”Hate speech. Offensive speech. Free speech. Where do we draw the line? Where should we […]

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23 Oct

CJFE announces award recipients

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has announced the three recipients for its 2008 press freedom awards Sami al-Haj of Sudan and Shakeman Mugari of Zimbabwe will be honoured in […]

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22 Oct

Afghanistan and freedom of expression

“On the morning of Oct. 27, 2007, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh got the call that changed his life,” starts a Globe and Mail interview with the journalism student in Afghanistan whose […]

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22 Oct

Canada ranked 13th in press freedom index

Reporters Without Borders has released its annual Press Freedom Index, and Canada sits at number 13 this year. Aside from New Zealand and Canada, the first 20 positions were held […]

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21 Oct

Afghanistan and freedom of expression

Freedom of expression does not exist under the government that we prop up in Afghanistan. That sad truth of that was verified yet again as Reuters reported, “Afghanistan’s appeal court […]

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14 Oct

Election Act gates set to fall

Election Act: 329. No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of […]

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9 Jul

China’s broken promise: PEN’s report

A one-year report card from PEN (the pdf is here) noted that seven months ago, the freedom of expression group called on the Chinese government to: • release all writers […]

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