During the Danish cartoons controversy in 2005–2006, a group of ambassadors to Denmark representing eleven predominantly Muslim countries requested a meeting with the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to protest against the cartoons. Rasmussen interpreted their viewpoint as one of demanding limits to freedom of speech and he ignored their request for a meeting. Drawing on this case study, the article argues that it is an appropriate, and potentially effective, moral criticism of anyone who is in a position of political power—taking into account reasonable constraints of feasibility and practicality—that they have refused to receive information, ideas, or opinions from individuals, or their representatives, with dissenting viewpoints. The article also articulates one possible theoretical ground for such a moral criticism: that they could be violating a fundamental (cosmopolitan) moral right of people to submit information, ideas, or opinions to those who wield power over them and to be meaningfully heard—a right which can span state borders.

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大都会民主和交流权利：丹麦漫画争议和被倾听的权利，即使是跨国界的

在 2005 年至 2006 年的丹麦漫画争议期间，一群代表 11 个主要穆斯林国家的驻丹麦大使要求与丹麦首相安德斯·福格·拉斯穆森会面，以抗议这些漫画。拉斯穆森将他们的观点解释为对言论自由的苛刻限制之一，他无视他们的会面请求。文章借鉴这个案例研究，认为这是对任何处于政治权力地位的人的适当的、可能有效的道德批评——考虑到可行性和实用性的合理限制——他们拒绝接收信息，来自个人或其代表的想法或意见，带有不同的观点。这篇文章还阐明了这种道德批评的一个可能的理论基础：