Berlin, Nov 03, 2009 - Speech by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Dear friends,

In preparing for this brief speech on such a fundamental topic as the freedom of speech in the Internet era, I thought of George Bernard Shaw, who once told a person that he had 15 minutes for his speech. When the man complained about how on earth he could tell the audience everything he knew in only 15 minutes, Shaw replied: “I advise you to speak very slowly.”

Representing the oldest European institution, I’ll take you through our history of human rights, and address some of the great opportunities but also some of the demanding challenges which we are facing regarding the internet revolution.

All within 15 minutes!
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(the rest of the speech you can read on CoE website)

http://www.coe.int/t/dc/press/news/20091103_disc_sg_en.asp