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The Free Speech Wars - How Did We Get Here and Why Does it Matter? (Paperback)
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The Free Speech Wars - How Did We Get Here and Why Does it Matter? (Paperback)
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Who gets to exercise free speech, and what happens when powerful
voices think they have been silenced? Assembling a diverse group of
commentators, activists and academics, this book explores the
contemporary free speech wars to try to understand how this issue
has become increasingly charged. It asks how the spaces and
structures of 'speech' - mass media, the lecture theatre, the
public event, the political rally and the internet - shape this
debate. The contributors examine how acts such as censorship,
boycotts, and protests around free speech developed historically
and how these histories inform the present. The book explores the
opposing sides in this debate: beginning with a defence of speech
freedoms and examining how speech has been curbed and controlled,
before countering this with an exploration of the way that free
speech has been weaponised and deployed as a bad faith argument by
people wishing to commit harm. Considering two key battlefields in
the free speech wars - the university campus and the internet -
this book encourages the reader to be suspicious of the way that
this topic is framed in the media today. The free speech wars
offers context, provocation, stimulation and - hopefully - a route
through this conflict. -- .
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