Media Law Essay: Free Speech Restrictions in UK Law - FB465

This essay provides an overview of media law in the United Kingdom, particularly focusing on the right to freedom of speech and expression. It examines the legal framework, including the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights, that guarantees this right while also outlining the restrictions imposed on media outlets. The essay discusses various limitations, such as those related to abusive language, offensive content, and incitement of crime, as well as the role of the Communication Act 2003 and the Broadcasting Act 1990. It also touches upon ethical considerations and the impact of these restrictions on media practices, exploring instances where media is restricted from broadcasting certain information. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of media law in maintaining societal welfare and the balance between free speech and public safety.

Media Law

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCE..............................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Media law implies to all the legal rights and regulations that are being made in
entertainment, broadcasting, cultural and with all the telecommunications through which the
digital platforms are being connected. It mainly covers all the rules and regulations that are being
made in the media industry (Dekker, van den Brink, and Meijer, 2020).The media law is
important as it serves out to protect and cover all the right within the interest of the individuals
and with that it also produces so important rights like fair trial, confidentiality and also among
the national security mediums. Media has a right to freedom of speech and expression through
their mass media communication medium as in order to provide information to the general
public. This essay will cover right of free speech in UK and with that all these certain restrictions
that has been imposed in the UK laws on freedom of speech.
MAIN BODY
Freedom of speech and expression is the most important right that has been made all
over the countries. As in UK it provides out as a qualified right which helps out the individual to
express their views in an independent manner. As it is source out as a right in which all the
individuals have a right to hold their opinion and to impart the information with ideas without
any interference of the authority. It governs out all the rights and responsibilities that is being
given with the integrity and for public safety that any person can at any time imparts all the
knowledge and information that has been made within them. The Freedom of speech being
framed by the human right through the European conventions as it was being incorporated by all
the national law in UK and through the Human Rights act 1988(Gibbons, 2018). It provides
freedom of expression and speech to all the individuals who used to hold their opinions and also
to maintain them to share their ideas according to various matters as in the Article 10 of
European convention helps out to maintain all the important information to be received without
any interference and may not be any restriction that can be laid out in regard to protection of
rights. As through international law this principle of freedom of speech and expression is being
articulated at provides all the important civil and political rights and with that the general right of
trying and implementing the limitations on and boundaries through which all the speech and the
related in document can be made. It is an international right and also helps out to provide a

constitutional right to all the citizens in UK. It helps out to maintain seek and receive information
with the proper ideas and standards. UK there has various laws and conventions which provides
the articulated method through which the rights and the privileges regarding the communication
can be given to the individuals it helps out to maintain and provide the security to all the
individuals who are attaining the rights to express their views. As it imparts from the European
Community mention and it is a part of an international law through which all the human rights
act provides out the rights through which all the legal matters and the freedom in expressing their
own views and integrating their ideas can be maintained.
As freedom of speech and expression place an important part and impacts on all the
political and social environment as it creates a strong interference with their speech principles
and also explain about the issues that has been rest out in the community with the developments
and compensate through their performance (Hui, Law, and Lau, 2020). As media is one of the
strongest is a medium and an important area of all the countries as it depicts out and provide
general information with the ideas and the views to all the communities and societies by their
strong networks it helps out to know and get all the issues in the matters with their imparting
knowledge and speech. Media helps out to give important information through their general
medium and also provide a right to free speech through various means of Human rights act 1998
of article 10 as it let that all the conditions, restrictions with severe views can be imparted in
order to maintain the free speech in the society.
There are various restrictions that has been made on the media in order to express their
views and on freedom of speech and expression in UK as they have the right to hold their
opinion and also to provide the relevant information that has been important in the public
authority and also for all the society and individuals living in UK but there are certain
legislations and the restriction they are like no media will be allowed to use any abusive words
and behaviour through which any disorderly areas and the person is being affected (Pearson, and
Polden, 2020). There is also being served that certain restriction on account of using any
insulting words or any offensive language for the government is being restricted to the media as
in order to which no media can be allowed to breach any peace and to use such derogate of
language through which any assault, any disturbance can be cost in the society. As There has
been imposed the Communication Act 2003 with the Broadcasting Act 1990 which used to

cover the legal and important frameworks into court to media law so that the standards of the
television and all the news that is been broadcasted in the speech that they are using should be
restricted with following adequate protection in order to make the general public aware and there
should not be any inclusion of harmful material with the offensive languages. The unfair
treatment and services or programs of any infringement of privacy is not being allowed in the
media (Raza, Abdullah, and Butt, 2018). The freedom is a speech for media law is being
restricted as they are not being allowed to broadcast or to speak any such activity which may
incite any crime, which affect any political or any controversy in industrial areas. They were not
being allowed to use any unjust treatment by their side several programs or by any broadcasting
of certain unjust treatments which may affect any advertising or persons image.
As there were several cases in BBC where a program has been aired about the foreign
comment which implies all the information regarding the sponsorship content and also about the
arrangement of funding and complex areas has been restricted as because it has been giving the
ideas with a few words about all the methods through which the charity is being governed
without informing all the viewers about the main reason. But there are certain other ethical rights
that are being asked by restricting the media in UK from using freedom of speech and expression
as sometime they used to serve the information regarding the public right and public interest and
through which the safety can be generated but they are being restricted to depict any such
information and it creates a major impact on the society also it is ethically wrong to restrict the
person to provide a proper information about the society and the changes that are being made
(Sachdeva, and Kumaraguru, 2017). There is somehow and discrimination that in the society
regarding the media in an ethical perspective as if they are serving the information regarding the
core of conduct and providing immorality in the areas that need to be changed and insistence of
that The government is uplifting and restricting them to broadcast such information will thereby
affect the ethical principles of the society. The broadcasters are being served to be cancel their
license as an order if they try to infringe the rights or try to use any of the search derogate tree or
discriminatory language that is not being allowed in the broadcasting areas or through mass
media television or any other sources. In regard to the media an there analysis there is being
maintained that all the rights are being served by the government and it is the duty if the political
and all the various areas to maintain the rules that are important in the functioning of the laws
and there general principles. It provides the methods through which the medium of working can

be accessed. There are various legal and the ethical perspective regarding the media law and
there has been generated that all the activity which are for the welfare of the people and the
society should not be restricted as this will thereby be ethically wrong to restrict any of the
important information that helps out to frame the laws which is being maintained by it. It helps
out to create a proper code of conduct in the society and also provides to know the moral values
that are needed in various areas. So it should not be maintained. Within that all the restrictions
like in the publishing or making any offensive comments on any person is being restricted by the
media and it serves out to promote the welfare and also the nature through which the working of
the areas the safety if the country is being maintained.
As freedom of speech is the most important factor and helps out to maintain all the Rights
and all the access of information that is being given to all the democratic systems. The journalist
usually serve the rights through which they used to protect them self and provide relevant
information that is being important in all the areas and for the public it implies that there are
some lawful content that should be made legal on account of freedom of speech and all the
unlawful means and sources cannot be allowed to be accessed or to be set in the general public
which may breach the right out and create defamation or harassment to any of the public area
(Zhuang, and Zhu, 2018) . The broadcasters would have a statutory function that they try to
report all such information which is important in all the telecommunication sectors so that the
operating of various conventions can be implemented. As in UK the right has been served out for
the national security and it is being given to the international laws as there is no codified law so
that there the individuals used to get the right of speech and expression through the means of
publications and also through the human rights act and it implies to provide privileged
communication and also to impart various important areas of information that is needed in the
general public areas and privacy and also maintain the competitive right and interest with the
laws and legislation that helps to maintain the ethical and legal barriers that has been faced by
the media in various laws.
CONCLUSION
From this above report it is concluded that media law helps out to maintain the rights of
all the broadcasting mediums as it serves out important information to the society so that the
growth and the welfare can be maintained. Right to freedom of speech and expression is an

important concept in UK as it is being served from the human rights act and through European
convention and it pertains out the right that all person has the right to speak to give their views
regarding any individual interest. Media is being restricted to use freedom of speech and
expression on certain points when they are trying to show any discriminatory or any harmful
areas that may affect the society and also harm the public with an offensive material.
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