David Cameron has attacked universities for allowing radical Islam to be spread on their campuses. But who draws the line when it comes to freedom of speech?
The old joke goes “George Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not a ‘how to’ manual, but that joke is increasingly less funny as the UK
No charges will be filed against a high school wrestling team who posed for a photo that appears to depict a lynching, as there was no criminal wrongdoing involved.
Freedom is somewhat of a loose term no matter what you might think of those rousing speeches in films and television shows like The West Wing. There are limits on personal freedoms in order to maintain some semblance of a civilised society – personal liberties are curbed in certain circumstances as to prevent people on encroaching on the liberties of others. It’s an awkward balance.
On June 29, 2012, the Criminal Investigation Department of Sri Lanka raided offices of two news websites, the Sri Lanka Mirror and Sri Lanka X News. They arrested nine journalists, including the editor, and seized equipments on the grounds that the websites were “propagating false and unethical news on Sri Lanka.”