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The Digital Public Square meets the Digital Baton - A Ten-Year Retrospective on Free Speech Law in India

Abhinav Sekhri

Verfassungsblog, 2024-04 (2366-7044) [Periódico revisado por pares]

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The Digital Public Square meets the Digital Baton - A Ten-Year Retrospective on Free Speech Law in India
Autor: Abhinav Sekhri
Assuntos: Constitutional Law ; India ; Indian Constitution
É parte de: Verfassungsblog, 2024-04 (2366-7044)
Descrição: The value a society and its laws place on protecting free speech is arguably most keenly felt where that speech takes a critical turn. Which is why the history of this field is littered with prosecutions and penalties being levied against problematic speech, inviting courts to draw the lines between what is protected and what is not. The past ten years in India demonstrate that when faced with speech that is critical of government policy or state action, the state has become increasingly hesitant to let it remain on air. What is perhaps most alarming for the health of democracy is that, in most cases, there is often a synergy across the three arms of the State that curbing problematic speech is the best course of action to follow.
Editor: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
Idioma: Alemão

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