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

You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom
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From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the advert of the Web, everywhere you turn you are told that we live in age of unparalleled freedom. This is dangerously naïve. From the revolution in Iran that wasn’t to the imposition of super-injunctions from the filthy rich, we still live in a world where you can write a book and end up dead.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.This is not an account of interesting but trivial disputes about freedom of speech: the rights and wrongs of shouting 'fire' in a crowded theatre, of playing heavy metal at 3 am in a built-up area or articulating extremist ideas in a school or university. Rather, this is a story that starts with the cataclysmic reaction of the Left and Right to the publication and denunciation of the Satanic Verses in 1988 that saw them jump into bed with radical extremists. And it ends at the juncture where even in the transgressive, liberated West, where so much blood had been spilt for Freedom, where rebellion is the conformist style and playing the dissenter the smart career move in the arts and media, you can write a book and end up destroyed or dead.

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Nick Cohen. You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

NICK COHEN. You Can’t Read This Book. Censorship in an Age of Freedom

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INTRODUCTION

PART ONE. God

ONE ‘Kill the Blasphemer’

Globalising Censorship (1)

RULES FOR CENSORS (1): Demand a Respect You Don’t Deserve

TWO. A Clash of Civilisations?

RULES FOR CENSORS (2): A Little Fear Goes a Long, Long Way

THREE. Manufacturing Offence

RULES FOR CENSORS (3): Go Postal!

FOUR. The Racism of the Anti-Racists

RULES FOR CENSORS (4): Say that it is Bigoted to Oppose Bigotry

HOW TO FIGHT BACK: John Milton and the Absurdity of Identity Politics

PART TWO. Money

FIVE. The Cult of the Supreme Manager

RULES FOR CENSORS (5): People Don’t Want to Know

SIX. A Town Called Sue

RULES FOR CENSORS (6): Money Makes You a Member of a Master Race

HOW TO FIGHT BACK: John Stuart Mill and the Struggle to Speak Your Mind

PART THREE. State

SEVEN. The Internet and the Revolution

RULES FOR CENSORS (7): Look to the Past/Think of the Future

EIGHT. The Internet and the Counter-Revolution

HOW TO FIGHT BACK: Advice for Free-Speaking Citizens

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About the Author

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For Christopher Hitchens

(1949–2011)

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