Posts Tagged “freedom of speech”

We Are the Web

By | March 5, 2012

What does the Internet mean for the kids who have grown up with it? Why the struggles for democracy are so intertwined with the fight for internet freedom? Slow-news-day.net would like to present a piece, which attempts to explain what and why. The original essay is called My, dzieci sieci and it’s written by Piotr Czerski, a Polish poet [...]

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Comic commenting the Mohammed caricature controversy restored

By | December 30, 2011

Excerpt from the comic Mohammed, Fear and Freedom of Speech by Ville Ranta.

Remember the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed and all the commotion they stirred? It started in the Fall of 2005. In Finland there was a little side episode in connection to the caricatures. The Finnish Government, headed by prime minister Matti Vanhanen, apologised to the Islamic world for the caricatures published by the Danish newspaper [...]

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