Free Speech And Why It Matters

Free Speech And Why It Matters
Andrew Doyle
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Paperback
h196 x 126mm - 144pg
10 Feb 2022 UK
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9780349135373
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' Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The TimesFREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERSFree 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.
Impassioned, scholarly and succinct -- Dominic Maxwell * The Times * The primer that we have been needing for some time * Areo magazine *
Andrew Doyle is a writer, broadcaster and satirist whose commentary on political and cultural issues is regularly published in the national press. He is a panellist on The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4) and often appears on Sky News. In 2019, he toured the UK with his stand-up show Friendly Fire. He is the author, as Titania McGrath, of the satirical books Woke: A Guide to Social Justice and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism. He has a doctorate in Renaissance literature from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a stipendiary lecturer. He was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen' s University, Belfast.
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ISBN-13: 9780349135373
Published: 10 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Constable
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 126mm
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 130g
Pages: 144

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