Free Speech And Why It Matters
Why It Matters
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Publisher Description
'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The Times
FREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERS
Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn. Governments throughout Europe have enacted 'hate speech' legislation to curb the dissemination of objectionable ideas, Silicon Valley tech giants are collaborating to ensure that they control the limitations of public discourse, and campaigners in the US are calling for revisions to the First Amendment.
However well-intentioned, these trends represent a threat to the freedoms that our ancestors fought and died to secure. In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and robust defence of this most foundational of principles.
Customer Reviews
love and understanding; not hate and exclusion
christian nationalists are the american taliban. people who no longer abide to listening to the teachings of Jesus’ sermon on the mount. why would any person hate another person and write a book about spreading fascism?. and therefore why should i be forced to hear the scum and the stink eminating from an idiot’s breath.
free speech does not grant violence and hate
stomp on these fascists, by going out and spending time within your community. there is no value to listen to this kind of ignorance.