Free Speech or Abuse? | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
14Should the internet be censored? Yasmin Alibhai-Brown argues that free speech has become an excuse for online abuse. Watch the full debate at https://iai.tv/video/do-we-need-internet-censorship-cyberbullying-trolling-free-speech-surveillance
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Most of us like to think that people are good, yet the anonymity of the internet has enabled an epidemic of abuse. Do we need the oversight of others to behave well? Was Hobbes right that humankind is at its core wicked and in need of constraint? Perhaps internet surveilance could create a better world, but is there an alternative where our essential goodness would flourish without us needing to be watched?
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Award-winning author and columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown currently writes for The Independent and The Evening Standard, and is the founder of British Muslims for Secular Democracy.
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