Trigger warning : is the fear of being offensive killing free speech? - Mick Hume
Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?
KORTE INHOUD
Free speech is being threatened, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism. This is a call to gird up our loins and laptops to fight the new free speech wars. Do we really need to worry about free speech in the West these days? After all, while the Internet might be censored in China and "blasphemers" can be executed in Islamist states, here everybody in public life insists that they now support free speech. And yet... Scratch the surface and it becomes clear that many support not so much free speech as speech on parole, released on licence with a promise of good behaviour, preferably wearing a security ankle bracelet to stop it straying from the straight and narrow. Lobbies demanding tighter regulation for the UK press try to differentiate between what they deem the respectable, serious press and the vulgar, irascible tabloids. Twitter has become the scene of "twitch hunts" where online mobs hunt down trolls and others who step outside the accepted conventions of online opinion. Fo...
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2015Uitgever: William Collins304 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0008125457ISBN-13: 9780008125455Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Dikke paperback, lichte leesvouwen in rug, in goede staat. Net ex. Engelstalig. Text in English.; 2015; William Collins; 310 pagina's; Titel: Trigger Warning. - Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?; Ref: 211403 / MH24P717A
