Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World - Rilegato

Ash, Timothy Garton

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ISBN 10: 0300161166 ISBN 13: 9780300161168

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

One of the great political writers of our time offers a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age

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 neighbors.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Timothy Garton Ash is Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony&;s College, University of Oxford; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the winner of the 2017 Charlemagne Prize and has won the Orwell Prize for Journalism.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300161166
• ISBN 13: 9780300161168
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 491
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile