Having Your Say: Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century 1st Edition by J. R. Shackleton 9780255368025 025536802X

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 025536802X
• ISBN 13: 9780255368025
• Author:   J. R. Shackleton

Today should be a Golden Age for free speech – with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we’re actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors – academics, philosophers, comedians and more – stress the fundamental importance of free speech, one of the cornerstones of classical liberalism. And they provide informed and incisive insights on this worrying trend, which threatens to usher in a new, intolerant and censorious era.

Table contents:

1 Introduction

2 A history of laws on hate and abuse

3 Tolerating extreme speech

4 Legislation on online harms will damage free speech

5 Liberty: beyond left or right?

6 Having a laugh? Free speech in comedy

7 Why free speech in advertising matters

8 Attacks on freedom to speak and to pray

9 The threat to freedom of speech in universities is a symptom of a wider problem

10 Free speech: the freedom that trade unions forgot

11 Offence, hypocrisy, and the function of democracy

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