“The UK’s response to our Council of Europe alert lacks concrete details about how government proposals dealing with online harms will not damage media freedom and the public’s right to information,” said Joy Hyvarinen, head of advocacy, Index on Censorship.
We ask French authorities to reverse this decision and allow Murad, an Index fellow, to study
When conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson was invited to deliver the distinguished Roy H Park Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school, outrage erupted over the choice.
Politicians around the world are trying to stamp out fake news online but at what cost to freedom of expression?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship has filed an official alert with the Council of Europe about risks to media freedom in proposals in the government’s recently released online harms white paper. The white paper has raised...
The controversy followed reporting of alleged hazing at an all-male and secretive sporting club, the Knights of the Campanile
The Digital Economy Act 2017 has the potential to pose a severe threat to the anonymity of people in the UK.
Dr. Kassem Alsayed Mahmoud speaks to Emily Seymour about Syrian academic freedom
The initiation ceremony, or “hazing”, was seemingly meted out to those invited to become members of the Knights of the Campanile, an invitation-only sporting society, based on similar bodies at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
While we recognise the government’s desire to tackle unlawful content online, the proposals mooted in the white paper – including a new duty of care on social media platforms, a regulatory body, and even the fining and banning of social media platforms as a sanction – pose serious risks to freedom of expression online.
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