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Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
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Readers
17/100Critics
7/100Scholars
Author:
Eric Berkowitz
Publisher:
Beacon Press
Date:
May 4, 2021
Lawyer, historian and journalist Eric Berkowitz explores how dramatically censorship has shaped our modern society, illuminating the power of restricting speech and how it has defined states, ideas and culture.
What The Reviewers Say
Dangerous Ideas does reproduce some erroneous ideas.
... [a] thought-provoking account.
As much as he champions free expression, Berkowitz sharply indicts social media companies engaged in 'surveillance capitalism,' profiting by allowing racism, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, and disinformation to proliferate. Still, faced with this challenge, he reminds readers that 'policing speech too aggressively risks exactly the kind of overbearing exercise of state power that spells the end of a free society.' A timely contribution to an ongoing debate..
