Challenges to the ECtHR from Russia and Turkey: freedom of expression on the Internet
by Oleg Soldatov
The Internet has offered millions of users the opportunity to access an unprecedented corpus of information, alongside the benefits of electronic communication. At the same time, regulation of the online domain is gradually being tightened, as an analysis of the most recent challenges to the ECtHR in Turkey and Russia shows.
As access to expressing one's opinion on a mass scale has grown on the Internet, i.e. via social media, states in conflict have moved to crack down on civil society's expressions and interactions in the online domain.
In recent years, the so-called Web 2.0…