Read You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom Online
Authors: Nick Cohen
Tags: #Political Science, #Censorship
Dillow, Chris 152
Does God Hate Women?
(Benson/Stangroom) 67, 68, 80–1
dotcom bubble (1990s) 162, 164
Dougans, Robert 244
Dowler, Milly 185
Downey, Lesley Ann 186, 187
Duke of Brunswick’s Rule (1849) 189–90, 201
East Pakistan 14
Economist, The
37, 164
Edward I, King 188–9
Edward VIII, King 255
Egypt 92, 95, 99, 100, 285, 266–7, 275
Ekho Moskvy 274
Ekstra Bladet
199–201
El Fagr
92
Elaine’s (restaurant) 181, 207
Elizabeth I, Queen 23
Ellsberg, Daniel 264
Eltahawy, Mona 52
English Defence League 115–16, 121–2
English PEN 245
Enlightenment, the 17, 23, 112, 113, 123, 135, 300
‘enlightenment fundamentalist’ xviii, 111, 112, 175
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus 19
Ernst, Edzard 233–8, 242
Europe, Islam and xviii, 17, 18, 32, 43, 46, 50–2, 61, 75, 79, 81, 93–5, 98–101, 104, 105, 107–10, 112, 113, 116–19, 121, 123–4, 138, 255; wealth in 146; ‘liberalism’ 193–4; libel actions in 197, 302; printing press and 270–4
European Union 93
expenses scandal, UK parliamentary 263
Facebook xv, xvi, 144, 190, 261, 266, 267, 288, 289
Falwell, Jerry 108
Farrelly, Paul 195
Farrow, Mia 207
fatwa, Rushdie and 12, 15–20, 24–5, 30, 35, 42, 43, 44–53, 136
FBI 75, 218
Feinberg, Joel 229
feminism xviii, 5, 10, 38, 42, 51–3, 64, 70, 81, 102, 104, 108–10, 122, 123, 135, 151
Feynman, Richard 153
financial crisis (2008) xviii–xix, 142, 143, 145–7, 154, 159–69, 286, 300–1
Financial Times
xviii, 164
Forbes
(magazine) 143, 156, 164, 203
Foreign Office, British 114, 256
Forster, E.M. 47
Foucault, Michel 171
4.48 Psychosis
(Kane) 281–2
France: Danish cartoon affair (2005) and 92–4; Enlightenment 113; National Front 116; libel laws 148; bans burqa 116, 119; Polanski and 181, 182, 207; Revolution 102, 103, 220, 273; law against denial of Armenian genocide 227; royal absolutism in 272, 273; racial hatred laws 296
Franco, General Francisco 45
Frank, Thomas 259
Franklin, Benjamin 220
Freedom House (human-rights organisation) 126
freedom of conscience 123–4, 131, 137
freedom of speech: Internet and xvii, 253, 256, 257, 266, 269, 297; religion and 31, 33, 36, 38–9, 58–9, 77, 88, 89, 92, 94–6, 114, 121, 123, 124, 126–7, 130, 131, 136, 138; money and 146, 149, 154, 171–2, 175, 188, 194, 196, 206, 216, 219–21, 226, 248–50
see also
censorship; libel law
and
United States Constitution
Freeland, Chrystia 148
Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It
(Ehrenfeld) 205–6
Gailey, Samantha 179, 180, 181
Galileo 34, 246–7
Gandhi, Indira 14
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) 213–14
Gandhi, Rajiv 13–14, 58
Gaza 93
Gazprom 147
Gellner, Ernest 24–5
Geneva Convention 293
Germany 37, 101, 147, 227, 273
Ghonim, Wael 267
Gibson Square (publishers) 79–80
Giggs, Ryan xiii–xvi, xxi, 276
Global Witness 203–4
globalisation, benefits of 144–5
globalising censorship:
The Satanic Verses
and 13–20; English libel law and 201–6; civilisations, clash of and 29–53; manufacturing offence and 54–97; racism and 98–138
see also
religion
Godwin, William 103
Goldacre, Ben 239, 243–4
Goldman Sachs 160
Goodwin, Fred xii–xiii, 154–9, 161, 165–6
Google 267, 276, 286, 287
Gray, Mr Justice 193
Greece 224; military dictatorship 4, 45; blasphemy law 126: free-speaking assembly of ancient 131, 170–1
Green, David Allen 198
Green, Sir Philip 142
Greenspan, Alan 160, 164, 168
Griffith-Jones, Mervyn 48
Guantánamo Bay xvi, 75, 293
Guardian
185, 239, 240–1
Guildford Four 193
Gun, Katherine 256
Gutenberg, Johannes 270, 272–3, 276
Haldane, Andrew 145
Halifax Building Society 166
Haughey, Charles 205
Hazlitt, William 193
HBOS (bank) 166–8
Heathrow Airport 257
Hemming, John xv
Hera, Sooreh 121
High Court, London 202, 275
Hindley, Myra 186, 187
Hinduism 9, 55–64, 130
Hindustan 60
Hitchens, Christopher ix, 31–3
Hitler, Adolf 59–61, 100, 129
Hizb ut-Tahir 49
Hobsbawm, Eric 5
Hofstad Network 107
Hoggart, Richard 47
Holland 4, 42, 101, 104–14, 116, 118, 120–1, 159, 194, 200, 302
Hollis, Martin 29
Holocaust 51, 75, 100, 104, 193, 227, 267, 296
Holt, Lord Chief Justice 219–20
homosexuality 5, 123; religious persecution of 5, 68–70, 75, 111, 121, 129–30; J.S. Mill and 172, 225, 226; UK law and 226–7
Howe, Geoffrey 37–8
Hubbard, L. Ron 202
Human Rights Watch 203
Husain, Maqbool Fida 54–65, 126
Hussaini Youth 77
Hussein, Saddam 38, 85, 293
Iceland 160–1
identity politics 58–9, 105, 110–11, 131–8, 210
Igarashi, Hitoshi 41, 43
immigration 12, 43, 51, 104, 108–10, 116–17, 119
Independent
192
Index on Censorship 245, 280
India xv: Rushdie and xvii, 6, 11–15, 18, 36, 40, 213–14; Husain and 54–65, 81; Constitution 61–2; criminal code 62; wealth 143, 146; energy companies in 146; protest in 213–14; homeopaths in 234; Internet in 277
inequalities of wealth 141–7, 161–2, 174–5
injunctions xi, xii; super- xii–xvi, xxi, 195, 196
Interfax news agency (Russia) 297
International Monetary fund 160
Internet: utopia/freedom of xv–xvi, xix–xxi, xxii, 201, 258–79, 303; super-injunctions and xiv–xvi; revolutions/political activism and xvi–xvii, 266–7, 269; China and
see
China; effect on old media 165, 188; libel law and 201; extra-territorial censorship and 239; War on Terror and 255–7; and the counter-revolution/suppression of 280–298, 303
Iran xvii, 80, 90, 120, 121; Revolution (1979) 6, 38; fatwa against Rushdie 15–20, 32 child marriage in 67–8; new wave 83; cartoons and 94–5; energy companies in 146; Internet in 266, 267, 283–5, 289, 290, 296
Iran–Iraq war (1980–88) 38, 300
Iraq 38, 49, 73, 87, 115, 254, 256, 300
Irving, David 193
Ishaq, Mohammad 56
Islam/Islamism/Islamists: Western liberals and xvii–xviii, xxi, 29–53, 72–7, 80, 81, 111, 151; women, attitude towards xviii, 7–11, 26, 29, 36, 39–41, 43, 45, 51, 52, 63–81, 87, 88, 90, 91, 96, 98–124, 126–30, 133, 135, 138; Western fear of xxi, 18–20, 30–81, 194, 255; blasphemy and 3–138;
Satanic Verses
and
see Satanic Verses, The
; fascism and 29; far-right ideology and 29; racism and 29, 98–130, 138; Western academics and 31, 44, 72–7, 80, 81, 111; and clash of civilisations 29–53; suicide bombers 47, 50, 73, 89, 90, 102, 108, 117–18, 185, 205, 254; Danish cartoon affair (2005) 49, 60, 79, 87–97, 119, 129, 255, 275; manufacturing offence 54–81
Islam4UK 114
Islamophobia 32–3, 45–6, 73, 75
Israel xx, 18, 33, 50, 75, 130, 255, 296
Jackson, Lord Justice 197
Jakobovits, Immanuel 37
Jamaat-e-Islami 14, 15, 31, 37, 40, 49, 72, 91, 114, 194
Japan 143, 147
Jefferson, Thomas 27–8, 216, 220
Jewel of Medina, The
(Jones) 64–7, 71–2, 76–9, 81, 114–15
Johnson, Lyndon B. 264
Jones, Sherry 64–7, 71–2, 78–81, 87, 126
journalism: English libel law and
see
libel law; wealthy and xii, xix, xxi, 146–8, 160, 161, 163–5, 188–201, 203–9, 242–3, 255, 275; Rushdie fatwa and 31, 44–6; fear of Islamism and 44–6, 49–50, 52, 60, 63–4, 74–6, 79–84, 87–97, 119, 129, 255, 275; Danish cartoon affair (2005) 49, 60, 79, 87–97, 119, 129, 255, 275; British political 183–4; phone hacking and 184–5; popular 184–7; deference and 187–8; alternative-health treatments and 236–47, 250, 276; Internet effect upon 262–9, 271, 273–98; investigative 183–201
Judaism 7–9, 14, 18, 29, 37, 74, 100, 102, 107, 111, 115, 129, 130
judiciary, libel law and xi–xv, xxii, 22, 23, 26, 188–209, 216, 238–43, 246–8, 250, 300; super-injunctions and xii–xvi, xxi, 195, 196; blasphemy and 126, 128; whistleblowers and 151; segregation and US 216–21; SLAPP actions and US 221–2
Jyllands-Posten
79, 89–93
Kapur, Ajay 134
Kashmir 61
Kaupthing Bank 199–201
Kelley, Kitty 201
Kenya 99, 100–1, 108
KGB 265, 281
Khader, Naser 92, 119–21, 123
Khagram, Sanjeev 146
Khan, Mohammad Sidique 117–18
Khanna, Parag 260
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 143, 148
Khomeini, Ayatollah 6, 15–20, 23, 25, 29, 39, 43, 46, 67, 136
King, Martin Luther 212–15, 217, 231
King’s College, Cambridge 24
Kinski, Nastassja 178–9
Koliada, Natalia 280–1, 283, 284, 289, 297
Koran xvii, 6–12, 52, 66, 68, 70, 77, 88–9, 106, 116, 128, 175
Ku Klux Klan 212
Kyiv Post
203
Labour Party, Dutch 105
Labour Party, Norwegian 118
Labour Party, UK 114, 142–3, 256
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(Lawrence) 47–8, 245