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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Author’s note

Prologue: ‘Je Suis Charlie’ and the free-speech fraud

SECTION ONE: The silent war on free speech

1 A few things we forgot about free speech

2 The age of the reverse-Voltaires

3 A short history of free-speech heretics

4 The Internet Front: hunting for trolls down ‘memory holes’

5 The University Front: students fight for ‘freedom from speech’

6 The Entertainment Front: football – kicking free speech with impunity; comedy – no laughing matter

SECTION TWO: Five good excuses for restricting free speech – and why they’re all wrong

7 ‘There is no right to shout “Fire!” in a crowded theatre’

8 ‘… but words will always hurt me’

9 ‘Mind your Ps, Qs, Ns and Ys’

10 ‘Liars and Holocaust deniers do not deserve to be heard’

11 ‘Free speech is just a licence for the mass media to brainwash the public’

A short summation for the defence

Epilogue: The Trigger Warnings we need

Notes

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