PAST EVENT: 8 July: Ways With Words at Dartington

Reduced ticket offer for Index on Censorship:

FREE SPEECH – The Great Middle East Revolution FRIDAY 8 JULY at 5.30pm, at The Telegraph Ways With Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon

  • Susan Pointer, Google Policy Director, South East Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • John Kampfner, Chief Executive, Index on Censorship
  • Hisham Matar, Libyan novelist
  • Sami Ben Gharbia, Tunisian blogger and activist

The above panel will examine what free speech means today. Has the internet revolutionised how the oppressed voice their dissent?

Tickets £5 (normally £9)

This event is part of a 10 day festival (8-18 July) with over 160 events at the medieval Dartington Hall, amongst lovely Devon hills.  Speakers appearing include: Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Alan Hollinghurst, Jon Ronson, Matthew Parris, Lionel Blue, Mary Warnock, Ben Okri, Xinran, Roy Strong.

To receive the full programme and take advantage of the two for one offer: call 01803 867373 or on line at www.wayswithwords.co.uk quoting ‘Index on Censorship ticket offer’

Internet arms race pits censorship tactics against new-media tools

Journalists and media activists meeting in Washington this week for World Press Freedom Day have celebrated the internet at every turn, from its role in catalysing revolutions in North Africa to its hand in breaking the real-time news of Osama bin Laden’s death. (The biggest hero of World Press Freedom Day 2011, by virtue of sheer luck and good timing, may be the Tweeter who unwittingly live-blogged news of the US raid in Pakistan before even bin Laden himself knew what was going on.) (more…)

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