http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/05/its-a-surprise-to-learn-how-universal-censorship-is/ for free expression Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/05/its-a-surprise-to-learn-how-universal-censorship-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 Index on Censorship » Blog Archive » Keeping it secret Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:35:28 +0000 http://testing.indexoncensorship.org/?p=2491#comment-1378 [...] but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.” As AC Grayling pointed out recently in an article for Index on Censorship, “There are two bedrock civil liberties without which the very idea of civil liberty is empty. [...] [...] but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.” As AC Grayling pointed out recently in an article for Index on Censorship, “There are two bedrock civil liberties without which the very idea of civil liberty is empty. [...]

]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/05/its-a-surprise-to-learn-how-universal-censorship-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 cearta.ie » Why protect free speech? Mon, 11 May 2009 23:20:48 +0000 http://testing.indexoncensorship.org/?p=2491#comment-1323 [...] Index on Censorship has published a short edited extract from Ideas That Matter: Key Concepts for the 21st Century (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) by AC Grayling, Professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, in which her provides a compelling and pithy case in favour of free speech and against censorship: It’s a surprise to learn how universal censorship is [...] [...] Index on Censorship has published a short edited extract from Ideas That Matter: Key Concepts for the 21st Century (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) by AC Grayling, Professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, in which her provides a compelling and pithy case in favour of free speech and against censorship: It’s a surprise to learn how universal censorship is [...]

]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/05/its-a-surprise-to-learn-how-universal-censorship-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1322 Anthony McIntyre Mon, 11 May 2009 19:39:53 +0000 http://testing.indexoncensorship.org/?p=2491#comment-1322 This is a particularly brilliant piece. It protects the inviolability of free speech by the use of a seeming paradox which negates the soft underbelly of free speech i.e. the claim that it is an absolute. All anti-censorship activists should reflect deeply on this. This is a particularly brilliant piece. It protects the inviolability of free speech by the use of a seeming paradox which negates the soft underbelly of free speech i.e. the claim that it is an absolute. All anti-censorship activists should reflect deeply on this.

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