Free Speech: Ten Principles For A Connected World

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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 & 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 & UN officials die in Afghanistan Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships & dissidents Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis the way to combine freedom & 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
- freespeechdebatecom
- conducted out of Oxford University & 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 neighbours