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Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas lectures in private international law at Curtin Law School, Curtin University. Before joining academia, he worked in litigation and media law in Perth. He recently gave a TEDx talk on the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’.

Michael Douglas reviews 'The New Censorship' by Joel Simon

June-July 2015, no. 372 27 May 2015
Joel Simon has had more friends murdered than I have friends.Such is the burden of the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organisation that promotes press freedom worldwide. As recent events painfully illustrate, journalism can be a dangerous vocation. ‘Murder, after all,’ Simon writes, ‘is the ultimate form of censorship.’ The New Censorship catalogues the har ... (read more)