Free Speech Ten Principles for a Conned 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 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
neighbours.
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 neighbours.