Recently, an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal bemoaning the announcement of new restrictions in China on foreign access to official information and databases. Denouncing the new rules as a “black box around information,” the WSJ leans on the notion that this is bad for business, which is often the conclusion Western media outlets…
After the Second World War, modern international law was established with the idea of countering “war propaganda” (United Nations General Assembly Resolution 110 of November 3, 1947 [1] and Resolution 381 of November 17, 1950 [2]). International legislators, i.e. sovereign states, soon agreed that war could only be fought against by ensuring the “free flow of ideas”…
Recently behind-the-scenes rules and restrictions being used by Facebook have fallen into the hands of Guardian reporters. According to their report, moderators employed by the tech giant are entitled to decide what exactly the 2 billion users of this social network can or cannot publish on their pages. This report has provoked a massive discussion on the absence…
