From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024
- Subject(s):
- Democracy — Freedom of expression — Freedom of the press — Hate speech — Right to access to information — Individual rights — Telecommunication
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1 The poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron famously stated, ‘The revolution will not be televised.’ Today, revolutions are often televised—and they happen on (social) media, in the pockets of people across the world. 2 The term ‘media’ encompasses all digital, electronic, or printed means of communication. These means constitute powerful tools for the dissemination of information and opinions—nowadays often including false or intentionally misleading ones—thus placing the media as an enabler of the human right to freedom of expression (Universal Declaration of Human...
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