Censoring the Word
Censoring the Word (Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century) Julian Petley,
Publisher: Seagull Books
ISBN: 1905422547
DDC: 791
Edition: Hardcover; 2007-11-13
Summary:
Since the Enlightenment, freedom of expression has been regarded as
one of the hallmarks of Western democratic societies. In the 20th
Century, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid down the
global principle that: "everyone has the right to freedom of
expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to
receive and impart information and ideas without interference by
public authority and regardless of frontiers." From the
Enlightenment, the ideas of Milton, Locke, Mill and Jefferson
developed into a classical paradigm of free speech which went largely
unquestioned for over two hundred years. The modern globalised world
has seen an end to such assumptions. The uproar and violence over
both The Satanic Verses and the Danish Jyllands Posten cartoons
raised the question of whether freedom of expression - from a global
perspective, most specifically an Islamic one - is an outdated legacy
of Western Enlightenment or a vital and necessary tradition which
must be protected. Increasingly, the dominance of global media
organisations and their responsibility to reporting the facts has led
to calls for legislation for corporate freedom of expression. And,
meanwhile, all pervasive, is the Internet, the new home for
individual expression and the new home for the effective
dissemination of religious and racial hatred and criminal sexual
deviance. Censoring the Word asks if we now live in an age when
freedom of expression can no longer be absolute.Manifestos for the
Twenty-First Century is a Seagull series ceated in collaboration with
the Index on Censorship, a home and voice for freedom and expression
since it was founded in 1972
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