JK Rowling joins high-profile figures voicing fears for free speech
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breakingnews.ieJK Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood are among prominent figures from the arts world who have signed a letter warning of an “intolerant climate” for free speech.
The 150 high-profile signatories say recent protests for racial and social justice are a “needed reckoning” but decried what they describe as the weakening of open debate in favour of “ideological conformity”.
The letter, published in Harper’s Magazine, comes amid a debate over so-called cancel culture, where public figures face criticism for perceived acts of offence.
It states: “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. “While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is
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