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					  Peeing on Pétain
					
Eric Heinze examines the boundary between civil disobedience and desecration.  

					  Should governments butt out of history?
					
Eric Heinze examines how states limit speech in order to control public awareness about the past.

					  What is ‘dehumanising’ speech?
					
Eric Heinze provocatively argues that no-platformers need to look into the mirror and examine their own blind spots. 

					  Launch of the report ‘Glasnost! Nine ways Facebook can make itself a better forum for free speech and democracy’
					
Join us at the Bonavero Institute of Human rights on the 28th February for the launch of an Oxford-Stanford report on Facebook, free speech and democracy. 

					  Glasnost! Nine ways Facebook can make itself a better forum for free speech and democracy
					
Free Speech Debate co-authors an Oxford-Stanford report on Facebook.

					  ‘Lenin-fall’: free speech and the politics of memory in Ukraine
					
O.T. Jones argues that the Ukrainian state should not restrict open historical debate but use its ‘expressive’ powers to foster a nuanced understanding of the past.

					  The rise of a new orthodoxy
					
Secularism poses its own threat to free speech, argues Father Jordi Pujol.  

					  It’s the institutions, stupid!
					
Calvin Chan proposes a new framework for conceptualising free speech.

					  Free Speech, Hate Speech, Dangerous Speech: What should Facebook do?
					
Join us online, with speakers Monika Bickert, Ken MacDonald, and Louise Richardson, to discuss what Facebook should do about hate and dangerous speech.

					  Bishop Dieser of Aachen: Europe must defend its secular culture
					
Bishop Dieser of Aachen examines our sixth principle, “Respect the believer but not necessarily the content of the belief”.

					  Law and historical memory: theorising the discipline
					
Free expression should not be considered as ‘just another’ human right. Any truly participatory political system cannot exist without it nor any legal system linked to such politics, argues Eric Heinze.

					  The Pnyx and the Agora
					
Designers need to pay attention to the architecture of theatres as possible political spaces, argues Richard Sennett.

					  Are you sitting comfortably? How safe spaces became dangerous
					
We must distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate safe spaces, argues Eric Heinze.

					  South Africa’s long walk to freedom of expression
					
Free speech holds the powerful to account and is essential to ending apartheid’s legacy of division, argues Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi.

					  Art with the ‘courage of thought’ is the best response to ‘hate speech’
					
Hungarian academic and performer Peter Molnar explains the importance of Gondolatbátorság to his ‘Hate Speech’ Monologues.

					  Solving the political ad problem with transparency
					
Customised news undermines democratic debate, argues Seth Copen Goldstein

					  The UK can show the way on platform regulation. But not by treating Facebook and Google as publishers
					
Mark Bunting argues that the tech giants should accept ‘procedural accountability’.

					  In defence of Europe’s memory laws
					
There are two exceptional cases in which memory laws protect free speech, argue Grażyna Baranowska and Anna Wójcik.

					  Las Vegas: the US is racked with impossible divisions over rights and freedoms
					
Todd Landman explores the contradictions between the American Constitution and the freedoms it seeks to preserve.

					  Hate speech and inter-ethnic violence in Nigeria
					
Bill Snaddon describes Nigerian writers’ appeals to curb hate speech and ethnic stereotyping in a fragile nation.

					  Don’t blame news polarisation on the internet…it’s not the technology, stupid!
					
The internet does not guarantee polarised news, argues Richard Fletcher.

					  The left’s version of hate speech: guilt by association
					
Leftists who argue for hate speech bans ignore the far left’s own version, argues Eric Heinze.

					  Bridging the deep digital divide in India
					
Only 17% of rural India has internet access. But citizen journalism is giving voice to minorities says Arpita Biswas.

					  The archipelago of press restriction in Turkey
					
Emre Caliskan and Simon Waldman explain how Turkey became the world’s largest imprisoner of journalists.

					  Russia: ‘The Church has an enemy in every home.’ It’s television.
					
Helen Haft explains how the Orthodox Church has eroded freedom of the media and lobbied for the 2013 law against offending religious feelings.

					  The internet alone will not set Africa free
					
Iginio Gagliardone explores the surprising technopolitics of two competing visions of the internet, US and Chinese, in Ethiopia.

					  Freedom of speech in Japan and the Designated Secrets Law
					
Arthur Stockwin explains the four main areas where free speech is under threat in Japan.

					  Israel, no-platforming – and why there’s no such thing as ‘narrow exceptions’ to campus free speech
					
Eric Heinze argues that it is contradictory to the principles of free speech to criticise the Israeli ambassador to Britain online and then no-platform him at a university talk.

					  Should I go to that conference in Hungary?
					
Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze

					  Free Speech? Not for critics of Israel
					
Avi Shlaim argues that when it comes to debates concerning Israel, free speech has become stifled in British academia.

					  Data visualisations: why facts don’t speak for themselves
					
William Allen calls for a robust debate of how data are presented.

					  The defence of free speech in Hungary
					
Timothy Garton Ash argues the defence of free speech is more important than ever in Hungary and as part of an interconnected, globalising world in which the disillusioned are turning toward more closed societies.

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