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Online freedoms face test in Uganda case against Facebook

A defamation case pitting a prominent Ugandan lawyer against Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, is unfolding as a key test to the limits to online freedoms.  TEA GRAPHIC | NATION MEDIA GROUP

A defamation case pitting a prominent Ugandan lawyer against Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, is unfolding as a key test to the limits to online freedoms.  

On July 29, a judge in Ireland ordered Facebook, which boasts some 1.7 billion users worldwide, to reveal identifiable information of a one Tom Voltaire Okwalinga (TVO).

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