Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to todayHailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. Today, in…
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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to todayHailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval.
Wells and modern-day digital activists--Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Through captivating stories of free speech's many defenders--from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he
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