You Can't Always Say What You Want by Dennis Baron

You Can't Always Say What You Want by Dennis Baron

The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.

'The landscape of free speech is in constant flux, and Baron provides important context to the current debates' Kirkus Reviews
'… ambitious and timely …' James Rhoades, Library Journal

Dennis Baron is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a frequent commentator on language issues in the national media and written a number of popular books, including What's Your Pronoun? (2020).

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ISBN 13	9781009198905
ISBN 10	1009198904
Title	You Can't Always Say What You Want
Author	Dennis Baron
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2023-02-28
Number of pages	240
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