Free speech includes hate speech

07 March 2014 , 11:46 AM by Do you really support freedom of speech? In other words are you prepared to let someone be totally offensive ... say things you find appalling... and yet say it is more important that they have a right ...

The Supreme Court on Monday made it clear that freedom of speech could not be restricted during elections and people should hear all shades of opinion. A Bench of Justices R.M. Lodha and Dipak Misra declined to entertain a petition filed by advocate Manohar ...

Prominent academics in Britain have been debating whether a new wave of censorship is taking hold in Britain with politicians, academics and the media afraid to criticise religious beliefs or religions for fear of retaliation. VoR's Tim Ecott spoke ...

The withdrawal of scholar Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus highlights shrinking freedom of speech in India and more.

It is a blight on our version of secular democracy that the freedom of expression is being threatened by intolerance being allowed to gain ground. The banning of any book by the government is bad enough, but to have a renowned publisher back off in the face ...

An Israeli draft law that would criminalize the use of the word Nazi in most cases has sparked a debate on freedom of speech in a state that was founded out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Seven decades later, memories of the extermination of millions of Jews ...

Commenting on the blacking out of two news channels in Uttar Pradesh, a few days after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav openly attacked the media for its "negative coverage of Saifai Mahotsav," Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari on ...

Banning opinion polls would be a direct attack on media freedom and free speech under Article 19. The elections this year have take place against the backdrop of social media and digital platforms. Twitter trending has made hashtags like RaGa and NaMo almost ...

Departing US ambassador to China Gary Locke addressed China's judicial system and human rights in his farewell speech in Beijing on Feb. 26, as the official China News Service published a critical article containing a racial slur, our sister paper ...