Free Speech vs Hate Speech: The EU’s censorship agenda

Free Speech vs Hate Speech: The EU’s censorship agenda
18:00 - 19:30, Wednesday 15 May
Stanhope Hotel Brussels

Who should control what can or cannot be said, heard or thought in Europe? What is the best weapon against false or hateful speech? Punitive restrictions, or more speech? What do European citizens lose when elites gain the power to determine the boundaries of acceptable speech? Why is free speech so vital to democracy?

Our new report from MCC Brussels' technology expert Norman Lewis, ‘Hate speech versus Free Speech: The Future of European Democracy’, aims to provide a counterpoint to the Brussels hate speech narrative. It explores how the EU has progressively sought to control more and more of what can be said. In the face of such attacks on speech, the case for fighting back is stronger than ever.

But as Llaywer Yohann Rimokh can attest, it is not just the digital realm that is at stake. Brussels has been a hotbed of hostility to political figures who do not fit within the mainstream of EU discourse. Time and again, culminating most recently with the attempted NatCon cancellation, elites try and shut down events they do not like.

Join this event for the launch of MCC Brussels’ latest report and a chance to support the Brussels Free Speech Declaration.

Speakers

Norman Lewis, visiting research fellow, MCC Brussels; author, 'Hate speech versus Free Speech: The Future of European Democracy'
Yohann Rimokh, lawyer, Brussels Bar; specialist in cases involving freedom of expression

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