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There was never such a thing as true freedom of speech. In order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspaper, a radio or a TV station. And everywhere you had to get past the editors. Only an elite ever did – the articulate and well-behaved representatives of ordinary people. But those ordinary people hardly, if ever, had a chance to speak publicly and freely. Until now. The age of blogging has begun. The internet revolution has given … More >>
A Blogger’s Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in the Age of the Internet
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Erik Ringmar is someone with first-hand experience of the issue of free-speech vs censorship in the on-line world. While anyone who is interested in these issues can theorise about the impact of censorship it is interesting to hear from someone who speaks honestly and openly about its practical effects (he was diciplined by the London School of Economics when he was a lecturer there in part because of things he said about the LSE in his personal blog).
Ringmar admits that his way of going about things is not always the best way or even the right way, he is quirky and that is his charm, however the lessons that he has learned and powerfully states are real and forcefully told. This really is a manifesto for free speech anywhere told by someone who knows what it really means.
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Posted on January 24th, 2010 at 12:50 am