Free Speech : Ten Principles for a Connected World

Resumen del libro

Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation, gross violations of privacy, tidal waves of abuse.

A pastor burns a Koran in Florida and UN officials die in Afghanistan. Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to have more but also better free speech. Across all cultural divides we must strive to agree on how we disagree.

He draws on a thirteen-language global online project - freespeechdebate.com - conducted out of Oxford University and devoted to doing just that. With vivid examples, from his personal experience of China's Orwellian censorship apparatus to the controversy around Charlie Hebdo to a very English court case involving food writer Nigella Lawson, he proposes a framework for civilized conflict in a world where we are all becoming neighbours.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Timothy Garton Ash x{0026}lt;/B (1955) es un historiador y periodista británico conocido por la brillantez con que ha documentado la transformación de Europa durante el último cuarto de siglo. Es profesor de Estudios Europeos en la Universidad de Oxford y Senior Fellow del Instituto Hoover, en la Universidad de Stanford. Escribe regularmente en medios como x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The Guardianx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The Washington Post x{0026}lt;/I o x{0026}lt;I The Wall Street Journalx{0026}lt;/I . A menudo se habla del trabajo de Garton Ash como una "historia del presente".x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Tenía diecisiete años cuando Gran Bretaña entró en la Comunidad Europea y sesenta y cuatro cuando la abandonó. Desde entonces ha vivido y respirado la política europea, ha sido testigo de algunas de las escenas más dramáticas de su historia, ha entrevistado a muchos de sus protagonistas y ha analizado la evolución de la vida de los europeos de a pie a lo largo y ancho del continente.x{0026}lt;/P