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Ireland: Students at Trinity College vote against proposition to defund University Times
The controversy followed reporting of alleged hazing at an all-male and secretive sporting club, the Knights of the Campanile
No sex please, we’re British: Why is no one talking about the UK’s impending “porn ban”?
The Digital Economy Act 2017 has the potential to pose a severe threat to the anonymity of people in the UK.
Syria’s universities: Tragedy and disaster
Dr. Kassem Alsayed Mahmoud speaks to Emily Seymour about Syrian academic freedom
Ireland: Trinity College newspaper faces closure over investigation into all-male student society
The initiation ceremony, or “hazing”, was seemingly meted out to those invited to become members of the Knights of the Campanile, an invitation-only sporting society, based on similar bodies at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Joy Hyvarinen on the UK government’s online harms white paper (BBC Radio Foyle, 9 April 2019)
Combine a legal duty of care with very large fines and personal criminal responsibility for senior managers, and you get a strong incentive for online platforms to remove lots of content.
Joy Hyvarinen on the UK government’s online harms white paper (BBC Newshour, 8 April 2019)
“It’s very important that when you propose laws that will affect people on a very large scale, that it needs to be based on evidence and a thoughtful, careful approach because you can do a huge amount of damage,” Hyvarinen said.
Joy Hyvarinen on the UK government’s online harms white paper (BBC Today, 8 April 2019)
“The government is under public pressure to be seen to be doing something about this problem,” Hyvarinen said.
Habari RDC: “We must do everything possible so that Congolese society becomes more democratic”
In December 2018, when Index last spoke to Habari RDC, the DRC was gearing up for an election that would name a successor to president Joseph Kabila, who had been in power since 2001
This week at Index: And the winners are…
Index announces the winners of the 2019 Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowships.