Free Speech : Ten Principles for a Connected World / Timothy Garton Ash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garton Ash, Timothy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of expression.

Local Subjects:

Freedom of expression.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

One of the great political writers of our time offers a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation, gross violations of privacy, tidal waves of abuse. A pastor burns a Koran in Florida and UN officials die in Afghanistan. Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to have more but also better free speech. Across all cultural divides we must strive to agree on how we disagree. He draws on a thirteen-language global online project-freespeechdebate.com-conducted out of Oxford University and devoted to doing just that. With vivid examples, from his personal experience of China's Orwellian censorship apparatus to the controversy around Charlie Hebdo to a very English court case involving food writer Nigella Lawson, he proposes a framework for civilized conflict in a world where we are all becoming neighbors.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Post-Gutenberg

Cosmopolis

Ideals

1. Lifeblood

2. Violence

3. Knowledge

4. Journalism

5. Diversity

6. Religion

7. Privacy

8. Secrecy

9. Icebergs

10. Courage

Challenge

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-16136-0

OCLC:

1149399691