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The Panama free speech zone | Okke Ornstein | TEDxPuntaPaitilla

1,300 views · Published 4 November 2014 · 17:04 · Indexed 7 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Okke shares his concern with current libel laws in Panama and proposes an alternative free speech zone.

As an investigative reporter and award-winning TV producer, Okke has an instinctive tendency to dig below the surface of things. He has filed stories for major media like NTR, Radio Netherlands, Het Parool, de Volkskrant and Newsmax. In late 2013, he traveled with a Dutch organization to Syria and covered the first European humanitarian flight there. 

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