New answers tagged human-rights
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When was the last time the US Supreme Court limited rights with a decision?
[As I had expected someone to have posted something by now, but I see nothing...] "Small examples" aren't going to be hard to find. Morse v. Frederick (2007) limited students' (1st amendment)...
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How do Western democracies justify censorship of foreign media outlets?
Western democracies such as the United States do not have to justify censorship of foreign media outlets such as the RT, because, at least in the case of RT in the US, no censorship was imposed by the ...
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How do Western democracies justify censorship of foreign media outlets?
I will try to answer this question from a general standpoint without addressing the two specific cases linked above. This is just my personal theory by the way.
I tend to think of international ...
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How do Western democracies justify censorship of foreign media outlets?
I can't speak for the other cases, so this comment will focus on the decision against RT in the UK. The press release announcing it can be found here, and full ruling here.
The organisation making the ...
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How do Western democracies justify censorship of foreign media outlets?
You linked the case of RT. The story of the RT ban is, in large parts, the story of RT DE, and the question if that is Russian or German news (or possibly Serbian, or Luxembourgian).
Even democracies ...
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