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Having your say : threats to free speech in the 21st century / edited by J. R. Shackleton ; with contributions from Philip Booth [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of speech--History.
- Freedom of speech.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : The Institute of Economic Affairs in association London Publishing Partnership, 2021.
- Summary:
- Today should be a Golden Age for free speech - with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we're actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors - academics, philosophers, comedians and more - stress the fundamental importance of free speech, one of the cornerstones of classical liberalism. And they provide informed and incisive insights on this worrying trend, which threatens to usher in a new, intolerant and censorious era.
- Contents:
- Intro
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- About the authors
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- J. R. Shackleton
- New types of speech restrictions
- This book
- 2 A history of laws on hate and abuse
- Jacob Mchangama
- Suppression of abolitionist writings in the US
- British colonialism
- Apartheid South Africa
- The United Nations, human rights and hate speech
- The continuing importance of free speech in protecting minorities
- 3 Tolerating extreme speech
- Nick Cowen
- Classical liberal free speech doctrine
- Is extremism exceptional?
- Everyday extremism
- A taste for violence
- Alternatives to restrictions on speech content
- Conclusion
- 4 Legislation on online harms will damage free speech
- Victoria Hewson
- Legal but harmful
- Disinformation and fake news
- Rowing back from safe harbours
- Free speech needs free enterprise
- A fool's errand?
- 5 Liberty: beyond left or right?
- Claire Fox
- Free speech and the COVID-19 crisis
- The racism crisis and the threats to free thought and expression
- Beyond left and right: a new movement?
- 6 Having a laugh? Free speech in comedy
- Leo Kearse
- A brief history of censorship in comedy
- Modern censorship
- My own experience
- In defence of censors
- The impact of censorship
- 7 Why free speech in advertising matters
- 'Good' and 'bad' advertising?
- Advertising regulation in the UK
- Advertising and the curtailment of free speech
- Conclusions
- 8 Attacks on freedom to speak and to pray
- Philip Booth
- Introduction
- Restrictions on freedom of speech, conscience, prayer and thought
- We know where you live: free speech and police visits
- A close-run thing: Lee v. McArthur and Ashers.
- Free speech and institutional culture
- 9 The threat to freedom of speech in universities is a symptom of a wider problem
- Stephen Davies
- Freedom of thought
- Limitations on speech
- The historical basis of university freedoms
- Challenges to free speech in universities
- This is part of a wider problem
- 10 Free speech: the freedom that trade unions forgot
- Dennis Hayes
- Disorganised unions
- The therapeutic turn
- Trading off free speech for safety
- Free speech and the Prevent duty
- Speak up only to whistleblow
- The suppression of speech
- UCU in the therapeutic university
- Forward with the Free Speech Union?
- Postscript: #Je ne suis pas Samuel
- 11 Offence, hypocrisy, and the function of democracy
- David S. Oderberg
- Offence, insult, and harm: conceptual considerations
- Waldron on 'hate speech'
- The deliberation argument for free speech in a pluralist democracy
- Freedom of speech as prior to freedom from offence
- References
- About the IEA
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780255368025
- 025536802X
- 9780255368018
- 0255368011
- OCLC:
- 1259593274
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