Clive Anderson recently chaired a discussion on Radio 4 in May 2013 that asked a simple question: how free is our speech in Britain today? The discussion also took the time to considered specifically how speech on social media should be controlled or otherwise.
Billed as 'the programme that gets behind the legal issues of the day,' it certainly did that. You can listen to the episode in full here.
Clive Anderson kicked things off with a nice overview of the legal history as it exists in law in Britain to date and how this contrasts with our love of freedom: