Media and its freedom of expression

The arrest and release of two young girls in Palghar for an innocuous comment on Facebook and the arrest of a couple of Zee News editors for alleged extortion are facets of the same issue — that of freedom of expression. Whose freedom is greater: the individual’s, a group’s or a company’s? Is a media company’s freedom to unearth scams greater than an individual’s to privacy? Within media companies, is Facebook’s or Twitter’s freedom bigger than India TV’s or Dainik Jagran’s? Is the freedom of those two girls more important than, say, that of a painter? What responsibilities does this freedom come with?

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