| | |  | Wireless Technologies | Home » » » Censorship, Inc.: The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the United States | | | | | | | Description: | | The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. In this book we come to see how it also acts as a smokescreen behind which a more dangerous and insidious threat to free speech can operate. Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, so new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest. Censorship, Inc. is a comprehensive examination of the vast array of corporate practices which restrict free speech in the United States today in fields as diverse as advertsing and the media, the workplace, community life, and the environment. Soley also shows how these threats to free speech have been resisted by activism, legal argument, and through legislation. Grounded in extensive research into actual cases, this book is at the same time a challenge to conventional thinking about the nature of censorship and free speech. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Lawrence Soley | | Paperback:
| 384 pages | | Publisher:
| Monthly Review Press | | Publication Date:
| 2002-08 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1583670661 | | Product Width:
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| 219.5 centimeters | | Product Weight:
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Timely, well-researched, and well-writtenJan 14, 2010
By Josh Burnett A timely addition to the discussion of free speech in America, Soley's book lays out some of the most serious new threats to free speech - the disappearance of public streets and town commons into private malls and gated communities, where speech can be censored.
In addition, it discusses the threats to consumer safety by the disappearance of information about corporate products and services, the efforts of corporations to censor customers from speaking to other citizens about their experiences with the goods or services they have purchased.
Does free speech exist if Homeowner's Associations, businesses, and advertisers can prevent - by threat or lawsuit or both - others from speaking?
This is an even-handed and highly readable presentation of specific cases that should be of great use in lively classroom discussions. And it should make us all question the encroachment on the public sphere that is happening with the decline of post-World War II civic values.
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Biased but solidJan 21, 2007
By David Latella Used this book as a primary source for a research paper. The author's political bias is glaringly obvious throughout much of the work ... but the factual evidence is still solid. Recommend it highly.
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