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You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

by Nick Cohen

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The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which allowed for even the smallest voice to be heard, everywhere you turned you were told that we were living in an age of unparalleled freedom. 'You Can't Read This Book' argues that this view is dangerously naive. From the revolution in Iran that wasn't, to the Great Firewall of China and the imposition of super-injunctions from the filthy rich protecting their privacy, the traditional opponents of freedom of speech - religious fanaticism, plutocratic power and dictatorial states - are thriving and in many respects finding the world a more comfortable place in the early 21st century than they did in the late 20th.… (more)
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يتناول الكتاب موضوع الرقابة وحرية التعبير وكمّ الأفواه، مبيناً كيف يمكن للانترنت أن يكون سيفاً ذي حدين في هذه القضية.
يستخدم الكاتب العديد من الأمثلة، منها ردود الأفعال الهمجية على كتب متهمة بالإساءة الدينية ويسخر في عنوانه من الحظر الذي تواجهه هذه الكتب، ودور المحاكم في قمع الأصوات لصالح كبار رجال الأعمال، وكيف أن مجرد انتقاد جهة معينة قد يحمل لصاحبه عواقب وخيمة في زمن ندّعي فيه حرية الرأي والصحافة. ( )
  TonyDib | Jan 28, 2022 |
Nick Cohen is a fine polemicist, with a strong liberal outlook, and in this books, he considers if the internet has made us freer on not.

And he concludes not. In reaching this conclusion he looks at the religious persecution that is administered from the smallest thing said or written, looks at the way the global elite use their massive wealth to keep the general public in place, and political leaders in check, and the UK libel law to suppress all manner of truths. He then goes onto look at the new dictatorships around the world, that can be utterly brutal in keeping their populace in control.

At the end he makes a short series of suggestions that democratic governments need to implement to improve freedom of speech, including wholesale revision of UK libel law, which has been condemned by the Un of all people.
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  PDCRead | Apr 6, 2020 |
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The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which allowed for even the smallest voice to be heard, everywhere you turned you were told that we were living in an age of unparalleled freedom. 'You Can't Read This Book' argues that this view is dangerously naive. From the revolution in Iran that wasn't, to the Great Firewall of China and the imposition of super-injunctions from the filthy rich protecting their privacy, the traditional opponents of freedom of speech - religious fanaticism, plutocratic power and dictatorial states - are thriving and in many respects finding the world a more comfortable place in the early 21st century than they did in the late 20th.

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