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    You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

    By Nick Cohen

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 19, 2012
    ISBN9780007436453
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    You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom
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    Nick Cohen

    Nick Cohen is a journalist and commentator for the Observer and Evening Standard. He is also the author of ‘What’s Left’? – the most important and provocative commentaries on how the Left lost its way.

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      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.