Description: 'A fantastically timely book written by one of the smartest thinkers in Britain' Piers Morgan Free 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. '[As] terse, restrained, and as carefully argued as a QC's summing-up in a top-drawer courtroom drama . . . a beautifully balanced and comprehensive overview' The Critic 'Powerful' Richard Dawkins
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Book Title: Free Speech and Why It Matters
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group The Limited
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: General, Censorship, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Genre: Political Science
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Author: Andrew Doyle
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
