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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Publisher
Manchester University PressYear
2020Print ISBN
9781526151162
9781526152541
eBook ISBN
9781526151155
Index
Abbott, Diane 264
academic freedom 95, 182–3, 188, 190, 204
activism 258
Adam Smith Institute 31
agony aunts 148
Alcibiades 99–100
A’Lee Frost, Amber 118
‘alt-right’ 15, 31–2, 166, 227–9, 235–6
American Library Association (ALA) 44–6
Office of Intellectual Freedom 45–6
anti-intellectualism 175
anti-racism 15
apophemia 127
Aristophanes 97–9
Aristotle 230, 235
Asda (company) 27
Asquith, Herbert 147
Association of German Students 66
Athens, ancient 75, 97–100
Australia 24, 82
authoritarianism 23–5, 82, 153, 236
baby boomers 7
Baby Loup affair (2008) 108
Baggini, Julian 54
balancing freedoms against others’ well-being 9
Baleato, Natalia 108–9
Bannon, Steve 229, 231
Baubérot, Jean 109–12
Beauvoir, Simone de 234
Beaverbrook, Lord 146
Belgium 158
Berkeley College 185–8
Berlin, Isaiah 92
Berners-Lee, Tim 56, 60
Beyoncé 241
Biard, Gérard 105
Biggar, Nigel 13–14, 95–6
Bindel, Julie 252
Birmingham Hippodrome 27
blacklisting of literature and writers 63, 68
blasphemy laws 5, 104
Bloom, Allan 97
Blue Labour 120
book burnings 63...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Protecting freedom of speech
- Free speech as a weapon
- Free speech on campus
- The internet: the Wild West of free speech
- Index
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