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Iceland voted to legalise blasphemy yesterday after a bill was brought to parliament by the country’s Pirate Party. 
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Paris, 9 January, 2015 —Without even waiting for the end of investigations on the despicable attack against Charlie Hebdo on January 7th, the French government is set on increasing the counter-terrorist arsenal, first by notifying Brussels the decree implementing “terrorists” or child pornography websites blockade but also by announcing new counter-terrorism measures. La Quadrature du Net calls on citizens to reject this absurd escalation and to show determination in defending freedom of expression and information.
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One of the most famous free-speech cases in U.S. history, the one that allowed publishers to live without fear of being bankrupted by a libel or defamation suit, involved a newspaper — namely the New York Times, which was sued in 1964 by an Alabama legislator named Sullivan. But any protection free speech gets in the future is more likely to come from Twitter, Facebook and Google than it is from the Times, according to a recent essay in the Harvard Law Review.
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This place is staffed by human beings, not Lucifer and his disciples. Everybody who comes here wants to do a good job, they want to tell great stories that will interest and entertain readers. But we are dealing with people who are lying to us on a daily basis, and it’s important that the public understand that. And now they are being lied to with state support, and that’s a chilling thing.’
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