IS FREE SPEECH UNDER THREAT?
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???12.9 x 1.2 x 19.6 cm
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Social Sciences
Author Name
Charlotte Lydia Riley
About Author
Charlotte Lydia Riley?is a historian of twentieth-century Britain at the University of Southampton, specialising in questions about empire, politics, culture and identity. She is editor of?The Free Speech Wars?and author of?Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of publications including the?Guardian,?New Statesman,?Financial Times, Washington Post?and?History Today. She tweets @lottelydia.
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Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years, there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance ? most notably on university campuses and online ? that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down. This has led to an escalating free speech arms race, from which everyone loses.