Our perspectives

Here you can find op-eds, blog posts, presentations, etc. where our perspectives on the futures of free speeches are presented

The Daily Beast: U.K.’s Crackdown on Anti-Royal Protests Makes U.S. Free Speech Look Good

14.09.2022

WBUR: The history of the price of free speech

29.08.2022

TIME: In A War of Ideas, Banning Russian Propaganda Does More Harm Than Good

20.08.2022

StrasbourgObserver: A joke-telling lawyer: The case of Simic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina

18.08.2022

New York Daily News: The larger legacy of Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’

15.08.2022

Taz: Gut gemeinte Zensur

16.07.2022

Human Rights Here: Banning Russia Today and Sputnik in Europe is a bad idea

11.07.2022

Cato Institute: What We Can Learn from the History of Free Speech

27.06.2022

American Council of Trustees and Alumni – Jacob Mchangama: “A Global Free Speech Recession”

27.06.2022

Persuasion: Banning Hate Speech Won’t End Extremist Violence

07.06.2022

PBS The Open Mind: March of the Autocracies

24.05.2022

Spectator Australia: Don’t mention the swastika

19.05.2022

NZZ Magazine: Auf Twitter soll bald wieder totale Meinungsfreiheit herrschen. Ist das gut?

02.05.2022

The Independent: What will Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter mean for free speech?

28.04.2022

Foreign Policy: The Real Threat to Social Media Is Europe

26.04.2022

Azcentral: Why silencing speech, even hurtful speech, makes us more intolerant

20.04.2022

Forum on Information and Democracy Launches Working Group on Social Network Accountability Regimes

28.03.2022

Democratic recession or breaking point for the “bulwark of liberty”?

24.03.2022

Daily Beast: The Problem With Banning Russian Disinformation

16.03.2022

The Globe and Mail: Joe Rogan, Spotify and the dangers imposed by private threats to free speech

11.02.2022

Foreing Affairs: The War on Free Speech – Censorship’s Global Rise

09.02.2022

Wall Street Journal: Will Banning Hate Speech Make Europe Safer?

07.02.2022

Unherd: Banning RT is a Soviet — not western — tactic

04.02.2022

Persuasion: A Race to the Bottom on Internet Censorship

21.12.2021

OpnioJuris: Hate Speech by Proxy – Sanchez v France and the Dwindling Protection of Freedom of Expression

15.12.2021

Persuasion: Americans, Don’t Envy European Speech Codes!

07.10.2021

a16z: 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise

09.09.2021

Raseef22: حرية التعبير في العالم العربي… إلى أين؟

27.08.2021

Opinio Juris: Freedom of Expression and Its Slow Demise: The Case of Online Hate Speech (and Its Moderation/Regulation)

25.07.2021

Slate: Aussi surprenant que cela puisse paraître, la liberté d’expression est une notion fragile en France

19.07.2021

El Pitazo: ¿Por qué está en declive la libertad de expresión en el mundo y en Venezuela?

07.07.2021

Lawfare: Time To End India’s War on Sedition

26.06.2021

India Express: Supporting free speech, but not criticism of government

26.06.2021

Who Cares About Free Speech – Media Coverage

23.06.2021

Foreign Policy: People Want Free Speech—for Themselves

09.06.2021

Human Rights Here: God “does not and cannot bless sin” – Hate Speech Laws: Quo Vadis?

31.05.2021

Opinio Juris: India’s IT Rules, 2021: Incompatible with the ICCPR and a Fatal Blow to Democratic Discourse

14.05.2021

The Future of Free Speech Project 2020: A Year in Review

01.02.2021

Lawfare: Rushing to Judgment – Examining Government Mandated Content Moderation

26.01.2021

Arc Digital: The Purge of Trumpism

22.01.2021

Foreign Policy: How to Judge Facebook’s New Judges

04.12.2020

ECHR BLOG: ‘Hate Speech’ Jurisprudence of the ECtHR through a Qualitative and Quantitative Lens

04.11.2020

Euractiv: The Digital Berlin Wall: How Germany built a prototype for online censorship

08.10.2020

Verfassungsblog: No Country for Dissent – Twitter’s anticipatory Takedown of Tweets in India

26.08.2020

Rightsblog: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill

21.08.2020

Verfassungsblog: In Search for an Antidote

09.07.2020

Spiked: Hate-speech laws are no friend of minorities

02.06.2020

Foreign Policy: Coronavirus Has Started a Censorship Pandemic

01.04.2020

The American Interest: Taiwan’s Disinformation Solution

06.02.2020

Foreign Policy: Germany’s Online Crackdowns Inspire the World’s Dictators

06.11.2019