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This article covers press freedom, which is a subset of freedom of expression more generally, and rationales for restricting or allowing press freedom in different forms of government. Debates about approaches to regulating certain kinds of controversial expression are discussed.
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Greenawalt, K. (1989). Free speech justifications. Columbia Law Review, 89, 119–155.
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Cenite, M. (2015). Freedom of Press. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_203-1
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