Censorship with a pretext

Both Pakistan and Venezuela are using spurious claims about dangerous speech and violent images as a pretext for censorship, to…

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Peaceful vote in Kenya

The referendum went peacefully yesterday in Kenya, and the Constitution passed, by 67 percent according to the latest results. This…

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World Policy on Air: Susan Benesch

David A. Andelman sits down with WPI fellow Susan Benesch to discuss free speech, both in Kenya where she has been researching, and in the rest of the globe. Benesch,a former journalist, reflects on evidence that inflammatory speech can catalyze mass violence, and discusses ways of limiting the danger without restricting free speech

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