All Stories: Free Speech

Elon Musk has vowed to take a robust free speech stance on the social media platform.

Twitter's board of directors can lean on concerns about the fate of the social media platform under Elon Musk to rebuff him, but if...

MDAO bears resemblance to an ordinance PPO issued in Ayub Khan's times to control and censor media, the notification said

TORONTO/SAN FRANCISCO: The neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer had its internet domain registration revoked twice in less than 24 hours in the wake of the...

BERLIN: Germany's parliament voted Friday to punish social media giants with fines of up to 50 million euros ($57 million) if they systematically fail...

NEW DELHI: India routinely uses outdated and loosely worded laws to crack down on dissent, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, urging the government to repeal or amend legislation used to stifle free speech.

ISTANBUL: Four Turkish academics go on trial Friday for "terrorist propaganda" in the latest of a series of court cases that have highlighted growing restrictions on free speech under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's speech on Wednesday was meant to staunch uproar over the transfer of two islands to Saudi Arabia, but his reprimand to an audience member ignited a furor over free speech.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court granted bail on Wednesday to Kanhaiya Kumar, head of the student union at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, arrested for alleged sedition in a case that led to mass protests and accusations the government is trying to stifle free speech.

NEW YORK: Apple Inc will likely seek to invoke the United States' protections of free speech as one of its key legal arguments in trying to block an order to help unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, lawyers with expertise in the subject said this week.

LONDON: Britain's electronic spy agency GCHQ tapped emails of journalists at some of the world's top media organisations, the Guardian reported on Monday.