On protection of free speech
Friday
Jun 17, 2005
Inside PCIJ picks up the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s legal guide for bloggers, and comments that
Though the legal guide is based
on United States laws, the general underlying principles and situations
should still apply to some extent to our local context given the
existence of a (presumably) strong constitutional protection for speech
here similar to the U.S. Certainly, this reference should come in
handy, especially in these times.
Yes, there is (presumably) strong constitutional
protection for speech here. But protection of the lives of those
who speak out? That’s a different thing altogether.





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