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I’m guessing you will care when it actually affects you....#Politics #AntiCorruption #FreedomOfPress #FreeAssange #1A #2A #Libertarian
The dictatorship in Venezuela continues it’s censorship of the press. #FreedomOfThePress doesn’t exist in Venezuela 🇻🇪👇#FreeVenezuela
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"Radiocidio" is timeless in Venezuela: The national telecommunications agency closed six radio stations in the state of Cojedes in July. The National Union of Press Workers denounced that officials took transmitters, consoles and computers from one of the media outlets.
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This is true and it happens in every news outlet (TV, print, radio, or digital) that's ever been attacked by conservatives as "biased" because they report the truth. #1A #FreedomOfThePress
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“I wish people who have doubts about journalism could see all the work and care that goes into the stories that are on Nightly News every night. The layers of review, the efforts to get it right. I’m just so immensely proud to have been part of this organization.” -Pete Williams
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#FreedomOfThePress Watch how news is classically slanted in The Telegraph (some nuts would call it Venerable, Old Lady etc)
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This is how @ttindia has reported yesterday's Rs 28 crore cash haul by ED from a flat of the confidante of West Bengal's powerful Minister and super powerful Secretary-General of TMC, Partha Chatterjee. This is fearless journalism. This is called 'Speaking Truth To Power'.
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Article 10 protects your right to hold your own opinions and to express them freely without government interference.

This includes the right to express your views aloud (for example through public protest and demonstrations) or through:

    published articles, books or leaflets
    television or radio broadcasting
    works of art
    the internet and social media

The law also protects your freedom to receive information from other people by, for example, being part of an audience or reading a magazine.

Are there any restrictions to this right?

Although you have freedom of expression, you also have a duty to behave responsibly and to respect other people’s rights.
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There’s even more than David Davis mentions that makes the Online Safety Bill. I’ll just mention one: the ‘protections’ for free speech only really provide protection for journalists (and very limited at that), and it’s not just journalists who need free speech. We all do. twitter.com/daviddavismp/s…
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