![]() ![]() Earlier this year, I presented my ten principles to IFEX, which is the biggest global network of free speech organizations. On the other hand, you can still have quite simple principles-liberal principles for free speech in a world where everybody’s becoming neighbours with everybody else. There are multiple states, there are international organisations, there are what I call the ‘private superpowers’-Google, Facebook, Twitter, which, as we’re all discovering, are effectively regulating our freedom of speech, often globally-and then there are other players. ![]() So the forces involved are very complicated. There used to be the old rule of thumb, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” But in the world of mass migration and the internet, there are people from everywhere in Rome, and what someone says in Rome can be heard anywhere. It’s even more complicated now, because it used to be about the state you were in. In your book, you’ve narrowed it down to ten principles, but free speech is incredibly complicated, isn’t it? Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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