“New Challenges to Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age” – Speaker: Ian Dunt, Editor of top political news and analysis website Politics.co.uk
Open sessions designed around the ideas, debates and issues that really matter in the world today. You can expect to hear musings, news and views from top speakers in politics, business and media. This is a public event, hosted at Bournemouth University, we look forward to welcoming you, so please reserve your place for the first event on Thursday 17th at 4pm https://bupoliticssociety.eventbrite.co.uk
Ian Dunt is editor of politics.co.uk. He specialises in issues around immigration, civil liberties, democracy, free speech and social justice and appears regularly on the BBC, Sky and Al-Jazeera as well as a variety of radio stations. He also writes lifestyle columns for other publications and websites. “The right has long had a censorious, Mary Whitehouse streak which seeks to limit and outlaw thoughts and art which veer too far from mainstream tastes. We saw the latest instance of this following the death of Margaret Thatcher, with the push for a ban on the song ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’. What’s most concerning is that the left is now following in its footsteps – from Labour’s attempt to outlaw religious hatred, to radical feminism’s current fixation with lads’s mags and ‘intersectionality’. While the internet has presented us with unheard of possibilities for free expression, it is also creating with it a new tribalism, with campaigners increasingly trying to rule out their opponents’ right to speak, rather than challenge the arguments themselves. We are more connected than ever, but increasingly we surround ourselves with only those of the same persuasion. As a result, we grow ever more outraged when confronted with views we don’t agree with.
Thursday 17th October, 2013, 4pm at Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Room: KG03 (Kimmeridge House) follow signs from the main car park where there ample free parking from 4pm.
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Bournemouth University Politics SocietyContact Alison on 07782 299181 for further information
