{"id":68157,"date":"2020-10-31T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=68157"},"modified":"2021-04-07T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:28:04","slug":"right-to-freedom-of-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-freedom-of-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to freedom of expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong>: \u00a0Following the beheading of Samuel Paty, a middle-school teacher in France for showing cartoons of the Prophet as part of a class on free expression, three more have been killed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More in News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Dalit lawyer was killed in Gujarat for posts allegedly prejudicial to Brahmins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to nurture Freedom of Expression?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting the right to freedom of expression does not require to validate offensive speech.<\/li>\n<li>Freedom will better be served by promising any religious community a public sphere that could never cause them offence.<\/li>\n<li>Compromising on freedom of expression will set back the struggle of millions of people to free themselves from the oppressive blasphemy laws everywhere across the world.<\/li>\n<li>Politically mobilised, fanatical religion has often not been safe for individual freedom, whether it is a form of Islam, Christian or Buddhist fundamentalism or Hindu nationalism.<\/li>\n<li>There is a need to ensure that the asymmetries of power do not discriminate against communities.<\/li>\n<li>Governments need to understand that purpose of public policy and public discourse is to protect freedom and not to stereotype or subordinate another culture or produce a forced uniformity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is time to cut through complicated politics and defend the simple principle of liberty, against all challenges.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"M47kbOAyRP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flaws-in-new-it-rules-2021\/\">Flaws in new IT Rules 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Flaws in new IT Rules 2021&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flaws-in-new-it-rules-2021\/embed\/#?secret=oqRcSlcmE1#?secret=M47kbOAyRP\" data-secret=\"M47kbOAyRP\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: \u00a0Following the beheading of Samuel Paty, a middle-school teacher in France for showing cartoons of the Prophet as part of a class on free expression, three more have been killed. More in News A Dalit lawyer was killed in Gujarat for posts allegedly prejudicial to Brahmins. How to nurture Freedom of Expression? Supporting the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-freedom-of-expression\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right to freedom of expression<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news-updates","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":83,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}