You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom (37 page)

‘There is nothing’
Decision of the Supreme Court in
Red Lion Broadcasting Co., Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, June 1969

‘At bottom, the Court’s’
Opinion of Stevens, J.,
Supreme Court of the United States, Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commission

CHAPTER 7: THE INTERNET AND THE REVOLUTION

‘Out of this concourse of several hundred’
‘The Prevention of Literature’, George Orwell,
Polemic
, 1946

‘No doubt that the punk’
Islam Online, 1 January 2008

‘Deadhead in Davos’
One Market Under God
, Thomas Frank, Secker and Warburg, 2001, p.ix

‘universal liberation’
Parag Khanna quoted in ‘The New Thinking’, Leon Wieseltier,
New Republic
, 27 January 2011

‘foreign policy can no longer be the province’
‘Internet has Changed Foreign Policy Forever’, Katherine Viner,
Guardian
, 19 June 2009

‘from an economic standpoint’
‘Remarks on Internet Freedom’, Hillary Clinton, speech delivered at the Newseum, Washington, DC, 21 January 2010

‘no longer a passive’
WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
, Micah L. Sifry, Yale University Press, 2011, p.48

‘In places like Egypt’
‘Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime’, David Wolman,
Wired
, October 2008

‘The use of flash mobs’
Shirky, p.169

‘To speak online’
Ibid., p.171

RULES FOR CENSORS (7)

‘reactionary cant’
Shirky, p.69

‘Art Troitsky’
‘The Dangers of Satire’, Emily Butselaar,
Index on Censorship
, 17 May 2011

‘The radio station Ekho Moskvy’
The New Cold War
, Edward Lucas, Bloomsbury, 2009, p.78

‘would be commercial’
Ibid., p.80

‘could easily put an’
Evgeny Morozov,
The Net Delusion
, Penguin, 2011, p.73

CHAPTER 8: THE INTERNET AND THE
COUNTER-REVOLUTION

‘We all want one thing’
Charter 97, Speech to the judges at the Partyzansky court, 13 May 2011 http://charter97.org/en/news/2011/5/13/38527/

‘capitalist running dog’
‘China: Mao and the Next Generation’, Kathrin Hille and Jamil Anderlini,
Financial Times
, 4 June 2011

‘is very much self-censoring’
Asian Wall Street Journal
, 29 August 2000

‘Informants and covert’
‘Privacy as a Political Right’, Gus Hosein, Privacy International, February 2010

‘being influenced by’
Morozov, p.11

‘Do you have any weapons in your car?’
‘Twitter and a Terrifying Tale of Modern Morality’, Nick Cohen,
Observer
, 19 September 2010

‘everyone who believes’
Sifry, p.188

‘confirmed the existence’
‘Holocaust Denier in Charge of Handling Moscow Cables’, David Leigh and Luke Harding,
Guardian
, 31 January 2011

‘Show the background’
Belarus
Telegraf
, 19 December 2010

‘Well, they’re informants’
WikiLeaks
, David Leigh and Luke Harding, Guardian Books, 2011, p.113

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Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk 74–6

ABN AMRO (bank) 159, 161

academics, Western: Islamism and 5–6, 31, 44, 59, 63, 72–7, 80, 81, 111, 130, 134

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) 108

Adams, John 220

Afghanistan xvi, 49–51, 73, 75, 87, 93, 115, 298

Africa xviii, 129–30, 195, 239
see also under individual nation name

‘Age of Transparency, The’ xvi, 258, 269, 271

Aids 82, 85, 91, 239

Akhmetov, Rinat 203

Akkari, Ahmed 92

al Qaeda 49, 79, 87, 204, 256, 288

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi 42, 98–102, 104–14, 119, 120, 124, 138, 275, 302

Ali, Rachid Ben 120–1

Alliance Defence Fund 130

al-Muhajiroun 79, 81

al-Qaradawi, Yusuf 93, 100

al-Shabaab 94

alternative-health therapies xx, 194, 230–46

altmuslim.com 76

Amanullah, Shahed 76–8

American Enterprise Institute 110

Amis, Martin 179

Amnesty International 123, 151

Anand, Anita 242

Anderson, Cameron 161

Animal Farm
(Orwell) 132

animals, treatment of 172–3

anti-Americanism 51, 117

anti-Semitism 33, 74–5, 95, 100, 108, 117, 296

anti-terrorism legislation 73, 119, 291

apartheid, South Africa 4, 15, 19, 40, 45

Arab League 92–3

Arab Spring (2010–11) xvi, 174, 188, 266, 269

Archbishop of Canterbury, office of 37, 113–14, 115, 120, 123

Areopagitica
(Milton) 131, 133–4, 136, 246, 253–4

Aristophanes 170

Armstrong, Karen 65–7, 80

Ash, Timothy Garton 111–13

Assad, Bashar 92, 275

Assange, Julian 271, 296–8

Associated Press 93

Association of British Neurologists 236

Athens: free-speaking assembly of ancient 131, 170–1

Aung San 86

Aung San Suu Kyi 86

Auschwitz 100, 193

Ayodhya mosque, India 59

Bacall, Lauren 141

Bahrain 66, 285

Bangladesh 14–15, 41

Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) 155, 158, 204

Bank of England 145, 169

banks/bankers: English libel law and xi–xiii, 26, 199–201, 204–5; financial crash (2008) and xii–xiii, xviii–xix, 148, 152, 159–69, 199–201, 204–5, 255
see also
financial crisis (2008); whistleblowers and xviii–xix; 159–69, 301–2; bonus culture xviii, 152, 157, 158, 160, 162–3, 165, 169; resentment of 145; bailing out of 148, 152, 158–9, 162–3; regulation of 146–8, 158, 160, 163–8, 258, 259; psychology of 154–9

Barclays Bank 159, 161

Barlow, John Perry 258, 259, 265

Barrot, Jacques 93

BBC 52, 164, 195, 242, 254, 257, 297

Beaufort Books 78

Beer, Anna 135

Beheshti, Ali 79, 81

Belarus xxi, 267–9, 278–85, 289, 290, 294, 296–8, 302

Belarus Free Theatre 280–4

Bellow, Saul 228, 229

Benckiser, Reckitt 144

Berezovsky, Boris 203

Berlin Wall, fall of (1989) xvi, xvii, 5, 20, 267, 286

Berman, Paul 113

Best Democracy Money Can Buy, The
(Palast) 202

Bibi, Asia 127–8

Bill of Rights: US 77; UK 196

bin Laden, Osama 94

bin Mahfouz, Khalid 204–6, 247

Birmingham Six 193

Blair, Ezell 210

Blair, Tony 49, 73, 166

blasphemy:
The Satanic Verses
and xvii–xviii, 3–28, 31, 301; Islamism and xvii–xviii, 18–28, 31, 36, 37, 54–138, 301; English law and 31, 37, 96–7, 125, 300, 301; Danish cartoon affair (2005) and 88–97; US law and 96; religious freedom and 125–30, 134, 300
see also
religion
and under individual name of religion

Bluitgen, Kåre 88–90

Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group 56, 60

bombings:
Satanic Verses
and 16–17, 20, 34, 44; suicide 47, 50, 73, 89, 90, 102, 108, 117–18, 185, 205, 254; London (7 July 2005) 50, 117–18, 185; New York and Washington (11 September 2001) 50, 73, 102, 108, 205, 254; Danish cartoon affair (2005) and 89, 90, 94; Civil Rights movement, US and 212, 215, 218

bonus culture xviii, 152, 157, 158, 160, 162–3, 165, 169

Bosnia 32

Bouyeri, Mohammed 107, 108, 113

Bower, Tom 191, 192

Bradford 17, 18, 256

Brady, Ian 186

Brazil 143, 146, 148

Breivik, Anders 117–18

Brion, Sébastien 161

British Chiropractic Association 237–8, 240–1

British Council 17, 254

British Medical Journal
151

British Muslims for Secular Democracy 114–16

British National Party 116

Brown, Gordon 164–6, 168–9, 260

Bruckner, Pascal 98, 113

Bukhari (Islamic scholar) 66, 71

bullying: God and 6–12; in the workplace 154–9; Internet and 299

Burma 43, 86–7

burqa, France bans 116, 119

Buruma, Ian 111–13

Bush, George 37

Bush, George W. 49, 73, 94, 110, 164–6

Cable, Vince 147

Cairo Declaration of Human Rights (1990) 128–9

Caldwell, Christopher 51, 117

Calvin, John 273

Cambridge University Press 205

Canary Wharf 158

Capriolo, Ettore 41

Carawan, Candice 211, 212

Carré, John le 34–5

Catholic Church 9, 23–4, 32, 33, 34, 49–50, 65, 101, 112, 131, 135, 137, 167, 225, 272, 277

censorship: injunctions/super-injunctions xi–xvi, xxi, 195, 196; main role xxi–xxii; offence and 3, 6, 7, 12, 26–7, 33, 37, 54–97, 126, 128, 229, 238, 240; globalising 13–20, 201–9; appeal of 21; protection for individuals not ideologies 26; post-Rushdie rules of self- 52–3; used to promote idea of national unity 61–3; self-censorship 4, 13, 21, 51–3, 89, 136, 154, 162, 172, 198, 274, 299; racism and
see
racism; location matters in xii, 176, 201, 202, 206–8, 268, 303; state and 251–98, 302; liberal love of 227–8; extra-territorial 239

Chambers, Paul 290–2

Channel 4: 30, 116

Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World
(Burr) 205

Charles I, King 131, 132, 136

Charlie Hebdo
(magazine) 96–7

Charter 97: 282, 283

China: Internet freedom and xix, 285–90; Communist Party xix, 84, 285, 286; persecution of Christians in 45; terror in 84–5; UNHRC and 127; wealth in 143, 144, 146, 147; autocracy 146, 147, 174–5; media and escapism in 278

Chinatown
(film) 176

chiropractors 230–47

Choudary, Anjem 81

Christianity: blasphemy laws and xviii, 31, 37, 96, 97, 125, 300, 301; attitude towards women 7, 9, 49, 112, 129; liberal 24; offence and 34; threatens free speech 37, 130; criticism of 45, 49, 105; crimes committed in name of 68; homosexuals and 68–9, 129–30; fundamentalism 102; decline of 118; religious tolerance and 126–8; split, seventeenth-century 137; Civil Rights movement and 212

Church of England: women bishops and 7, 114

Church of Latter Day Saints 8

CIA 265, 293

Cisco 287

Citigroup 143, 164

City University, London 73–4

Civil Rights movement, US 212, 213, 216–23, 302

Clinton, Bill xii, 95, 160, 166, 258–9

Clinton, Hillary xix, 260

Clydesdale Bank 155

Cold War 147, 280

Collins, Robert O. 205

Columbia Review of Journalism
164, 165

Comedy Central 96

Common Law, UK 189

Congo, Republic of 203–4

Congress of South African Writers 15

Congress Party, India 58–9

Conservative/Liberal coalition, UK (2010 –) 247–8

conservatives: social 5, 178, 184, 227; religious 8, 37, 67–8, 70, 103, 108, 126; Islam and Western 45, 46, 51, 72, 108–10, 116–18, 123; immigration and 108; neo- 109, 110; criticise UK judiciary 193; English radicals 248; Internet censorship and 258

Copenhagen University 88, 89, 91

corporations: libel law and xii, xiii, xx, 3–4, 149–69, 191–201, 302; managerial system, failure of 141–69; hierarchical, centrally planned 141–69, 191, 192, 202, 229; whistleblowers and 149–69; political influence of 249–50, 258, 274
see also
banks, wealthy
and
workplace

corruption xix, 18, 75, 82, 84, 100, 129, 143, 145–7, 149, 170, 174, 177, 226, 250, 277, 294, 295, 301

Council of Europe 95–6

Court of Appeal, UK 246, 257

Court of Star Chamber, England 131–2, 188–9

credit default swaps 160

Cromwell, Oliver 135, 273

Crosby, James 167, 168

Cruise, Tom 176, 202

Culture of Complaint
(Hughes) 31–3

Dahl, Roald 35–6

Daily Mail
184

Daily Star
116

Danish cartoon affair (2005) 49, 60, 79, 87–97, 119, 129, 255, 275

Danish Press Council 199

Darfur 85, 260

Davos forum 258, 259

Dawkins, Richard 153

‘Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace’ 259

defamation
see
libel law

Denmark 50, 60, 79, 87–97, 119–20, 123, 199–201, 239, 255, 275;
see also
Danish cartoon affair

Devlin, Lord Justice Patrick 227

dictatorships/dictators: determination to pursue dissenters xi, 82–7; Arab xvi, xix, xxi, 174, 188, 266, 269; Internet and xvi–xvii, xxi; effective versus total control xxi, 273–4, 278–9, 303; Western fall of 4, 19; religions shore up 15, 87–97;
Satanic Verses
and 18, 34; press and 83–4; use of terror 84–5; magnifying offence and 85–7; workplace as a 149, 154–9, 191; War on Terror and 256; Internet and 260, 266–9, 275–6, 278–9, 280–98