Timothy Garton Ash on Free Speech
Okay, I'm back from my long poetry break - a break for poetry, not a break from it - and I'm ready to assume my usual role of spokesperson for free speech.
I see that Timothy Garton Ash has also spoken out for free speech by publishing Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World, which NYT writer Tom Rachman tells about in an article titled "Timothy Garton Ash Puts Forth a Free-Speech Manifesto" (May 22, 2016):
After the murders at Charlie Hebdo last year, the public intellectual Timothy Garton Ash - once a dashing foreign correspondent, long since a scholar amid the spires of Oxford - issued an appeal to news organizations: Publish the offending cartoons, all of you together, and in that way proclaim the vitality of free speech.Apparently, the terrorists prevailed . . . or maybe not, given Ash's book, and especially his website.
"Otherwise," he warned, "the assassin's veto will have prevailed."
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 7:44 AM
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I read this yesterday, and I still don't know how to respond.
It's a tough call. I'd need to look further into his free speech site.
Jeffery Hodges
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