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1 In a 2011 report on the right to seek, receive and impart information online, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression expressed deep concern at the 'increasingly sophisticated blocking or filtering mechanisms used by States for censorship.' UN Doc. A/HRC/17/27, 16 May 2011 at para. 70 2 http://www.hrw.org/reports/2014/07/28/liberty-monitor-all-0 3 See HR Committee, Velichkin v Belarus, Communication No. 1022/2001, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/85/D/1022/2001 (2005).
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4 CCPR/C/GC/34, para. 36 5 A/66/290, para. 17 6 A/66/290 para. 15 7 See ARTICLE 19's third-party intervention in the case of Delfi AS v Estonia, Application no. 64569/09
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8 http://www.osce.org/fom/78309?download=true 9 Ibid. 10 See Cornec v Morrice & Ors [2012] IEHC 376 (18/09/2012); available at http://bit.ly/UHTaOG. The Court
considered that “a person who blogs on an internet site can just as readily constitute an “organ of public opinion” as those which were more familiar in 1937.” It also found that there was a high constitutional value in ensuring the blogger’s right to contribute to public discourse, and that being compelled to reveal their sources would compromise the “right to educate (and influence) public opinion, [which] is at the very heart of the rightful liberty of expression;” para 66; see also O'Grady v. Superior Court 139 Cal. App. 4th. 1423, 2006 WL 1452685 (Cal. App, 6th Dist., 26 May 2006); see also here and here.
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11 See ARTICLE 19's submissions in Delfi v Estonia, cited above. 12 International Mechanisms for Freedom of Expression, Joint Declaration of 20 December 2006. 13Report of the SR on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimation, xenophobia and related intolerance. 6th May 2014 UN Doc A/HRC/26/49 14 UN Doc. CCPR/C/GC/34 at para. 11
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15 The 2011 Joint Declaration on Freedom of Expression and the Internet, International Mechanisms for Promoting Freedom of Expression, June 2011
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16 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinions and expression, 16 May 2011, A/HRC/17/27 para. 47 17 UN Doc. A/HRC/ 23/40 17th April 2013
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18 See Fundamental Rights Agency, Handbook on European data protection law, 2nd edition, available at: http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2014-handbook-data-protection-law-2nd-ed_en.pdf 19 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13400&LangID=E
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20 A/HRC/17/27 para. 53
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21 UNESCO, Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression, 2012, pp. 53 and 99. 22 http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-05/cp140070en.pdf 23 http://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/37733/A19-comments-on-RTBF.pdf 24 Ibid.