Free Speech and Why It Matters by Andrew Doyle
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Free Speech and Why It Matters
- Why It Matters
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
Publisher’s Summary
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.
©2021 Andrew Doyle (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK
Craig P
Interesting and concerning
Didn’t agree with everything he had to say, but hey that’s kinda the whole point of it.
I do hope that by trying to tread a much needed path of tolerance and acceptance that we don’t as a society inadvertently hand power and control to those who we should know will abuse it for their own ends. Read Animal Farm again people.
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Andy Thompson
Common Sense
Just when you thought you’d forgotten what it was…
and current zeitgeist is slowly erasing it…
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