In Countries at war, freedoms of the press and of speech are often restricted. For that reason, al-Oaeda's attacks of September nth 2001, by precipitating a "war on terror", also raised questions—both legal and moral—about the role of the media in free societies.rnSeveral Western governments have used national security as a justification for limiting certain sorts of public information and public speech. The press itself has been torn: sometimes it has refused to accept limits on its freedom of expression (as when newspapers worldwide published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that were offensive to Muslims); sometimes it has accepted them (as when those newspapers apologised). Meanwhile, the media have managed to continue their normal work, uncovering abuses at the Guanta-namo and Abu Ghraib prisons, for example. So what has happened to freedom of expression under the war on terror?
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