La libertad de expresión en la jurisprudencia constitucional a la luz del control de convencional

Abstract

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right for democratic societies because it is the necessary guarantee and the assistant of many other human rights, in the world of communications this human right must be observed with a rights-based focus, in which the limitations that each country establishes must be within the international guidelines that have everything to do with human rights; under that premise the established criteria must be evaluated by the Colombian constitutional jurisprudence regarding this right, attentive to the obligation of following the guidelines set up by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, by obeying and applying a conventional control, using at the same time a block of constitutionality.