Machine generated contents note: Free speech in the online `marketplace of ideas' / 22. Protecting the freedom of speech / Helen Pallett. 2. Open-air free speech: the past, present and future of Speakers' Corner / Edward Packard -- 3. The problem of neutrality and intellectual freedom: the case of libraries / Sam Popowich -- 4. In a diverse society, is freedom of speech realisable? / Edson Burton -- 5. Training readers as censors in Nazi Germany / Victoria Stiles -- 6. Is boycotting for or against free speech? / Andrew Phemister -- Free speech as a weapon -- 7. When is free speech not about freedom? When it's about racism / Omar Khan -- 8. Drinking the hemlock: Socrates and free speech / Neville Morley -- 9. Secularism, Islamophobia and free speech in France / Imen Neffati -- 10. The logic of nonsense / Nina Lyon -- 11. Weaponised Swissness / Janna Kraus -- 12. Free speech and the British press / Aaron Ackerley -- Free speech on campus -- 13. Free speech and preventing radicalisation in higher education / Catherine McGlynn -- 14. Anatomy of a `trigger warning' scandal / Gabriel Moshenska -- 15. Grad school as conversion therapy: `free speech' and the rights of trans and non-binary people on university campuses / Grace Lavery -- 16. Teaching `freedom of speech' freely / Paul Whickman -- 17. The politicisation of campus free speech in Portugal / Daniel Cardoso -- 18. Do we need safe spaces? Waiving the right to free speech on campus / Marta Santivdnez -- The internet: the Wild West of free speech -- 19. A postmodern neo-Marxist's guide to free speech: Jordan Peterson, the alt-right and neo-fascism / Ben Whitham -- 20. Free speech and online masculinity movements / Henry S. Price -- 21. Choose your fighter: loyalty and fandom in the free speech culture wars / Penny Andrews -- 22. Free speech in the online `marketplace of ideas' / Helen Pallett.
Summary:
Who gets to exercise free speech, and what happens when powerful voices think they have been silenced? Assembling a diverse group of commentators, activists and academics, this book explores the contemporary free speech wars to try to understand how this issue has become increasingly charged. It asks how the spaces and structures of 'speech' - mass media, the lecture theatre, the public event, the political rally and the internet - shape this debate. The contributors examine how acts such as censorship, boycotts, and protests around free speech developed historically and how these histories inform the present. The book explores the opposing sides in this debate: beginning with a defence of speech freedoms and examining how speech has been curbed and controlled, before countering this with an exploration of the way that free speech has been weaponised and deployed as a bad faith argument by people wishing to commit harm. Considering two key battlefields in the free speech wars - the university campus and the internet - this book encourages the reader to be suspicious of the way that this topic is framed in the media today. The free speech wars offers context, provocation, stimulation and - hopefully - a route through this conflict. -- Provided by publisher.
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