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Nick Cohen (1) (1961–)

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Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer newspaper and writes regularly for the New Statesman. His articles have appeared in a wide range of publications including the Independent on Sunday, London Review of Books, Modern Review and Jewish Quarterly. He lives in London

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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.… (meer)
 
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TonyDib | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 28, 2022 |
Very engaging and well-argued criticism of the far left. Worth reading with a pinch of salt, but worthwhile nonetheless.
 
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BasilBrushOff | 8 andere besprekingen | May 20, 2020 |
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 | 1 andere bespreking | Apr 6, 2020 |
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