The huge development of technologies has been impacting the way we live, the method we communicate and the field we express our own opinions. Since the freedom of speech is one of the basic human rights that shall be protected at any time in a democratic society, further challenges have already been arisen. In other words, one can evaluate the democracy level by its satisfaction and protection of freedom of speech of the people. Since the importance of freedom of speech is obvious for everyone, due to the enormous amount of use of digital media which develops communication and social relationship, our traditional and basic understanding of fundamental human rights has been changed so far.

Freedom of speech, right to be forgotten, human right, GDPR, democracy, digital media, social platforms, data protection, privacy, media right