free speech | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Get the Paper
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Explainer
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Tuesday
January 20, 2026

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Get the Paper
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Explainer
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2026

free speech

free speech

FILE PHOTO: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reacts during a meeting with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Lukas Coch/Pool via REUTERS

Australia's hate speech, gun law reforms face free speech concerns

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has recalled Parliament from its summer break to sit next Monday and Tuesday with the hope that a combined bill that authorises a gun buyback and lowers the bar for...

Speakers at a discussion at the National Press Club on 6 December 2025. Photo: TBS

Activists voice concern over shrinking space for free speech, rise in harassment lawsuits  

Int'l Democracy Day: Give yourself a jail break

Int'l Democracy Day: Give yourself a jail break

Photo: Bloomberg

Elon Musk accuses Justin Trudeau of 'crushing free speech' in Canada

Photo: Collected

Pak court rules sedition law unconstitutional in ‘huge victory’ for free speech

Journalists holding banners and placards in protest to the Digital Security Act in front of the Press Club in October 2018.
Photo: Reuters

‘Imposing restrictions on the press or an individual's free speech is a fairly popular idea in Bangladesh’ 

Elon Musk. Photo: Collected

Human rights groups raise hate speech concerns after Musk's takeover of Twitter

Illustration: TBS

Elon Musk’s Twitter investment could be bad news for free speech

Banning TikTok: Where do we draw the line between free speech and digital security?

Banning TikTok: Where do we draw the line between free speech and digital security?

A protester with her mouth covered with a tape takes part in a demonstration against a Spanish court which sentenced five of six men accused of gang-raping a 14-year-old girl outside the Justice Ministry in Madrid on 4 November, 2019. Reuters

People want free speech—for themselves

FILE PHOTO: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

UN human rights boss urges Saudi Arabia to allow free speech, assembly

The company said fleets would be rolled out to all users on iOS and Android in the coming days. Photo: Reuters

'Playing with fire': Twitter's India snub sparks debate on compliance, free speech

File Photo: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 14, 2020. Photo:Reuters

Free speech has limits, Canada's PM Trudeau says

  • Show More
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2026
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net