Over the past few months, the Index on Censorship Youth Advisory Board has been coming together to ask difficult, yet essential questions in #IndexDrawTheLine
#IndexDrawtheLine: Youth Advisory Board round-up
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1 July: Silenced on campus: are our universities safe-guarding free expression?
Education, the beginning of some many roads. But if we start closing some of those avenues down, arguing that they are too dangerous or challenging, do we begin to travel in a terrifying direction?
#IndexDrawtheLine: Government surveillance should only happen when a threat to security exists
In the latest #IndexDrawtheLine, we’ve been asking the question: where should governments draw the line on everyday surveillance?
Tony Blair’s plans to tackle extremism will stifle free speech
Ideas and opinions need to be exposed to open debate — not driven underground
Padraig Reidy: Denis O’Brien, parliamentary privilege and the public interest
Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien got on an injunction on the reporting of a speech in parliament regarding his private banking relationships
16 June: Can liberty survive in the information age? (partner event)
King’s College hosts Alan Turing debate to mark 500th anniversary of King’s Chapel
8 July: A 21st century Magna Carta (partner event)
Justice, Money, Power debate at the City of London Festival
Philip Pullman, Jimmy Wales, and Steve McQueen join call for Angola to drop charges against investigative journalist
Rafael Marques de Morais was last week given a suspended sentence following a criminal defamation trial related to his 2011 book on blood diamonds, published for the first time in English on June 2
15-16 June: Conference on journalists’ safety, media freedom and pluralism in times of conflict
Index will be at the conference, which will cover best practices for war reporting, journalism ethics and the information war, among other issues
13 July: 800 years after the Magna Carta, do we have a free press?
Join the Society of Editors, London Press Club, Media Society, Women in Journalism and YouGov for the debate