Private censorship / J.P. Messina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messina, J. P., 1989- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech.

Censorship.

Freedom of the press.

Intellectual freedom.

Social media--Political aspects.

Social media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Private Censorship' is about free speech and how corporations and social groups can interfere with it. J.P. Messina asks and variously answers questions like: what should we think when employees get fired for things they say? When is it appropriate for social media firms to deplatform users, and what does it mean for our democracy that those in charge of such decisions are often wealthy Silicon Valley executives? Do search engines act as massive gatekeepers to information in troubling ways, and how might they be constrained if so? Messina argues that while there is much to worry about when it comes to these exercises of private power, it would be a mistake to simply do away with them, as some have suggested.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

1. Free Speech and Non-.State Censors

2. Self-.Censorship, Self-.Restraint, and the Ethics of Conversation

3. Censorship and the Workplace

4. The "Old" Media: Censorship and Press Freedom

5. The "New" (Social) Media

6. Search and Monopoly

7. (Not So) Final Thoughts

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 12, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Messina, J. P. Private Censorship

ISBN:

0-19-758193-5

0-19-758191-9

0-19-758192-7

OCLC:

1396991839