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This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of
free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy,
psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history
to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal
societies.
Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch
across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns
may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they
followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things spoken or
written. During the Red Scare, they were the hushed response to
chilling state-sponsored watch-lists and employer-supported
blacklists designed to ensure victory against communism. Against
this history, complaints about the new censorship appear
differently. With respect to the new censorship, there are no books
burnings, no prosecutions, no laws or committees. Indeed, there is
no coercive state involvement at all. With a few notable
exceptions, complaints about censorship in the 21st-century West
are complaints about the behavior of private parties: social
groups, employers, media conglomerates, social media platforms, and
search engines. To better understand the concerns surrounding
nonstate interference with speech, Private Censorship offers an
account of censorship, as well as an assessment of the ethical and
political issues it raises across contexts. J.P. Messina asks and
variously answers questions like: what should we think when
employees get fired for things they say and how might patterns of
such firings create a climate of fear inimical to free inquiry?
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 they do?
Along the way, Messina casts a critical eye on many popular
proposals for responding to these complaints. Unlike these popular
approaches, Private Censorship foregrounds the importance of rights
to property, association, and free expression for thinking well
about 21st-century censorship concerns.
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