15.01.2015 - 15:52 [ Techdirt ]

France Celebrates Its New Reverence For Free Speech By Arresting Comedian For His Speech

Over the weekend in Paris there was a so-called „Unity March“ in response to last week‘s Charlie Hebdo attack. The photographs from the march were striking — even if the famed photo of many world leaders holding hands and marching together turned out to a photo op on a closed street, rather than with the rest of the marchers. And, of course, this was all a facade. Many of the leaders who were there oversee governments that don‘t believe in free speech or a free press at all. Here, for example, is Jillian York trying to figure out if any of the leaders truly support freedom of expression.