Information liberation
Challenging the corruptions
of information power
Brian Martin
FREEDOM PRESS
London
1998




Contents
1 Power tends to corrupt 1
2 Beyond mass media 7
3 Against intellectual property 29
4 Antisurveillance 57
5 Free speech versus bureaucracy 83
6 Defamation law and free speech 107
7 The politics of research 123
8 On the value of simple ideas 143
9 Celebrity intellectuals 164
10 Toward information liberation 172
Index 176