Oct 2015

Gates of Vienna: Flemming Rose - We Need “Insensitivity Training”

“I will talk about free speech in the globalized world. Let me start by saying that I believe that we find ourselves in a new situation when it comes to the global debate about freedom of speech, because the debate is being driven by two new factors that didn’t used to be part of the framework within which we talked about free speech.
The new factor is technology, the digital technology. That means what is being published in a small language, in a small country that very few people would read and have access to, is now being published immediately, everywhere, and people can not only read and access it, they may also react to it even five thousand kilometers away, as we experienced it during the cartoon crisis...”
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Al Jazeera America: Flemming Rose - People too easily take offense

Flemming Rose: People too easily take offense
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