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Academica Press A Book Too Risky To Publish: Free Speech and
Book SynopsisTraditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the “good university” should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. The freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is increasingly restricted for fear of causing “offense.” In this daring and intrepid book, which was originally withdrawn from publication by another publisher but is now proudly presented by Academica Press, the famous intelligence researcher James R. Flynn presents the underlying factors that have circumscribed the range of ideas now tolerated in our institutions of learning. Flynn studiously examines how universities effectively censor teaching, how social and political activism effectively censors its opponents, and how academics censor themselves and each other. A Book Too Risky To Publish concludes that few universities are now living up to their original mission to promote free inquiry and unfettered critical thought. In an age marred by fake news and ever increasing social and political polarization, this book makes an impassioned argument for a return to critical thought in our institutions of higher education.
£85.60
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Academic Freedom
Book SynopsisIdentifying academic freedom as a major casualty of rapid and extensive reforms to the governance and practices of academic institutions worldwide, this timely Handbook considers the meaning of academic freedom, the threats it faces, and its relation to rights of critical expression, public accountability and the democratic health of open societies.An international cohort of leading scholars discuss the historical conceptualisations of academic freedom and explore the extent of its reconfiguration by neoliberalism and economic globalisation. Chapters examine the threats posed to academic freedom by interventionist government, economic fundamentalism, political conservatism and extremism. The Handbook finds that these threats endanger the intellectual ambitions at the core of academic freedom: contesting established ‘truth’ and holding power to account.Examining a matter of urgent social and political importance which is crucial to the future of democracy and intellectual autonomy, this Handbook is an invigorating read for students and scholars researching academic freedom, free speech and democratic governance in higher education institutions.Trade Review‘The Handbook on Academic Freedom paints an extremely disturbing picture of how, globally, academics’ ability to act as critical public intellectuals has been radically undermined by universities’ shift from a collegial to a managerial mode of governance. However, this is not simply a critique of the myriad ways in which academics’ “performance” is now constantly audited and monitored in a way that limits their freedom to perform their proper function, but also a much-needed call to arms.’ -- Julian Petley, Brunel University London, UK‘For three decades academic faculty have struggled within a neo liberal performance economy to maintain control over their work and ground it socially amid corporate universities focused on their own status as an end in itself. Now the spread of authoritarian states, the turn to more conflictual geopolitics and the new securitisation of science and technology pose more treacherous challenges. Much depends on whether academic freedom in its different variations across the world can ride out the storm. The book is an indispensable guide to this fundamental and vital issue.’ -- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Academic Freedom 1 Richard Watermeyer PART I HISTORIES AND CONCEPTUALISATIONS 1 Academic freedom in the modern British university: a historical perspective 18 Mike Finn 2 Publicness and intellectual work: rethinking academic freedom in the age of impact 37 Mark Murphy 3 Academic freedom as radical freedom 52 Christian Krijnen 4 A symbiotic relationship between academic freedom and liberal democracy: the case of higher education in Turkey 70 Ayla Göl PART II NEOLIBERALISM/MANAGERIALISM 5 Knowledge, meaning and work: threats to academic freedom in the world of research 90 Eva Aladro Vico 6 Institutional autonomy, managerialism and the conditions for academic freedom in Swedish higher education 105 Goran Puaca 7 Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and democracy: the incursions of neoliberalism 125 Mark Olssen 8 Reframing the freedom to teach 146 Bruce Macfarlane PART III CHALLENGING UNEQUAL STRUCTURES 9 A nation reimagined: the suppression of academic freedom in Turkey 160 Tahir Abbas and Anja Zalta 10 Whiteness masquerading as academic freedom 177 Georgina Tuari Stewart 11 Eurocentrism, racism and academic freedom in South Africa 190 Savo Heleta PART IV PERSONAL/POLITICAL REFLECTIONS 12 Toxic times for feminist academic freedom? 206 Carol A. Taylor, Susanne Gannon, Kathryn Scantlebury and Jayne Osgood 13 Academic freedom as experience, relation and capability: a view from Hong Kong 225 Liz Jackson 14 Academic freedom begins at home 242 Nesta Devine PART V STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC FREEDOM 15 Student freedom in contemporary universities: England and Italy compared 252 Lorenzo Cini 16 Academic freedom, students and the decolonial turn in South Africa 269 Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh and Thierry M. Luescher 17 Freedom, fragmentation and student politics: tracing the effects of consumerism in English students’ unions 288 Rille Raaper PART VI NEW CONFIGURATIONS 18 The end of academic freedom: two displacements and new ends for it 305 Ronald Barnett 19 Academic freedom and the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict 319 Cary Nelson 20 Academic freedom and extramural expression in the US 336 Henry Reichman PART VII A CALL TO ARMS 21 Campaigning for academic freedom 356 Dennis Hayes Index
£172.00
Liverpool University Press Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain
Book SynopsisThis book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods "new states" use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of "people without history" and the production of their texts through the literary "underground" can be constructed from subsequent testimony: from books sold in secret, to the writings of women in jail, to books that were written but never published or distributed in any way, and to myriad compelling circumstances resulting from living under fascist authority. A parallel study on two fascist movements provides a unique viewpoint at literary, social and political levels. Comparative analysis of literary censorship/literary reward allows an understanding of the balance between dictatorship, official policy, and what literary acts were deemed acceptable. The regime need to control its population is revealed in the ways that a particular type of literature was encouraged; in the engagement of propoganda promotion; and in the setting up of institutions to gain international acceptance of the regime. The work is an important contribution to the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism and the development fascist ideas.
£34.95
Emerald Publishing Limited Media, Development and Democracy
Book SynopsisSponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct value systems. With fresh portraits of new and traditional media throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia, authors delve into the essential role of the media in developing countries. Case studies illuminate the relationship between the State and the media in Russia, as well as the challenges faced by journalists working in Kurdistan. Further cases reveal bureaucratic censorship of books in Brazil, regulatory dilemmas in Australia, state policies in post-colonial Malawi, and the potential of oral culture for the strengthening of democratic conversation. Media, Development and Democracy brings the liberal democratic media model into new terrains where some of its core assumptions do not hold. In doing so, the authors' collective voices illuminate pressing issues facing our current global dialogue and our liberal and democratic expectations concerning communications and the media. This essential volume works as a magnifying glass for our current times, forcing us to question what kind of media we want todayTable of ContentsIntroduction: Overlapping communicative meshes: plural perspectives on media and development; Heloisa Pait Chapter 1. Foreign Authors, National Bans: Books and Censorship in Brazil (1964-1985); Sandra Reimão Chapter 2. Manufacturing the Liberal Media Model through Developmentality in Malawi; Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris Chapter 3. Toward a Framework for Studying Democratic Media Development and 'Media Capture': The Iraqi Kurdistan Case; Jeannine E. Relly, Margaret Zanger, and Paola Banchero Chapter 4. Regulating Unhealthy Food Advertising to Children under Neoliberalism: An Australian Perspective; Nipa Saha Chapter 5. How Russian Media Helped Develop the Authoritarian Tradition: Its Historical Legacy for Today; Dmitry Strovsky and Ron Schleifer Chapter 6. How to Capture the Political in Everyday Conversation? Focus Groups as a Method to Research Democratic Practices in Daily Life; ngela Cristina Salgueiro Marques and Luís Mauro Sá Martino
£73.99
Liverpool University Press Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain
Book SynopsisThis book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods new states use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of people without history and the production of their texts through the literary underground can be constructed from subsequent testimony: from books sold in secret, to the writings of women in jail, to books that were written but never published or distributed in any way, and to myriad compelling circumstances resulting from living under fascist authority. A parallel study on two fascist movements provides a unique viewpoint at literary, social and political levels. Comparative analysis of literary censorship/literary reward allows an understanding of the balance between dictatorship, official policy, and what literary acts were deemed acceptable. The regime need to control its population is revealed in the ways that a particular type of literature was encouraged; in the engagement of propoganda promotion; and in the setting up of institutions to gain international acceptance of the regime. The work is an important contribution to the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism and the development fascist ideas.
£100.00
ISEAS A Study of Vietnam's Control Over Online
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, the fixation on anti-state content has shaped the way Vietnamese authorities deployed various censorship strategies to achieve the dual goals of creating a superficial openness while maintaining a tight grip on online discourses. These considerations dictated how several regulations on Internet controls were formulated and enforced.Vietnamese censors also selectively borrowed from China's online censorship playbook, a key tenet of which is the fear-based approach. The modus operandi for the authorities is to first harp on what they perceive as online foreign and domestic threats to Vietnam's social stability. Then those threats are exhaustively used to enforce tougher measures that are akin to those implemented in China.But unlike China, Vietnam has not afforded to ban Western social media platforms altogether. Realizing that they would be better off exploiting social media for their own gains, Vietnamese authorities have sought to co-opt and utilize it to curb anti-state content on the Internet. The lure of the Vietnamese market has also emboldened Facebook and Google's YouTube to consider it fit to acquiesce to state censorship demands.
£10.97
Debate La casa del ahorcado Cómo el tabú asfixia la
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Taylor & Francis The Value and Limits of Academic Speech
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Counterspeech
Book SynopsisThis volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives. Counterspeech is in line with international human rights and freedom of speech, and it can be a much more powerful tool against dangerous and toxic speech than blocking and censorship.In the face of online hate speech and disinformation, counterspeech is a tremendously important and timely topic. The book uniquely brings together expertise from a variety of disciplines. It explores linguistic, ethical and legal aspects of counterspeech, looks at the functions and effectiveness of counterspeech from anthropological, practical and sociological perspectives and addresses the question of how we can use modern technological advances to make counterspeech a more instantaneous and efficient option to respond to harmful language online. The greatest benefit of counterspeech lies in the ability to reach bystanders and prevent them Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Approaches to Counterspeech: Linguistics, Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity; 1. Counterspeech Practices in Digital Discourse - An Interactional Approach; 2. The Philosophy of Counter Language; 3. Seeing the Full Picture: The Value of Interdisciplinary Counterspeech Research; Part II: Counterspeech in Context: Media, Culture and the Legal Framework; 4. Counterspeech as Persuasion and Media Effects; 5. Online Hate speech in Video Games Communities: A Counter Project; 6. Reimagining the Current Regulatory Framework to Online Hate Speech: Why Making Way for Alternative Methods is Paramount for Free Speech; Part III: Automation and the Future of Counterspeech; 7. Automating Counterspeech; 8. The Future of Counterspeech: Effective Framing, Targeting, and Evaluation; Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatics impoliteness and intergroup communication
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Cambridge University Press The Net and the Nation State
Book SynopsisThis book should be of interest to anyone investigating the debate on internet governance from a legal or social science perspective, including politics, media studies and human geography. The book connects ideas about internet jurisdiction with issues of censorship and freedom of expression, as well as free trade.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Internet governance and the resilience of the nation state Uta Kohl and Carrie Fox; Part I. Competing Narratives: 2. The universal norm of freedom of expression - towards an unfragmented internet: interview with Guy Berger; 3. Which limits on freedom of expression are legitimate? Divergence of free speech values in Europe and the US Jan Oster; 4. Nation branding and internet governance: framing debates over freedom and sovereignty Melissa Aronczyk and Stanislav Budnitsky; Part II. Solid and Porous Cyberborders: 5. Gatekeeping practices in the Chinese social media and the legitimacy challenge Lulu Wei; 6. Protecting gamblers or protecting gambling? The economic dimension of borderless online 'speech' Christine Hurt; 7. Where East meets West: censorship and cyberborders through EU data protection law Uta Kohl and Diane Rowland; 8. Cyberborders through 'code': an all or nothing affair? Dan Jerker B. Svantesson; 9. Cyberborders and the right to travel in cyberspace Graham Smith; Part III. Unpacking Internet Jurisdiction: 10. Alternative geographies of cyberspace Barney Warf; 11. Polycentrism and democracy in internet governance Jan Aart Scholte; 12. The end of territory? The re-emergence of community as a principle of jurisdictional order in the internet era Cedric Ryngaert and Mark Zoetekouw; 13. A space (partially) apart? Religious asylum and its lessons for online governance Philippe Ségur; 14. Geoinformation, cartographic (re)presentation and the nation state: a co-constitutive relation and its transformation in the digital age Georg Glasze.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Yes I Can Say That When They Come for the
Book Synopsis"No one makes me laugh harder than Judy Gold.Trade Review"Judy Gold’s years of blazing free speech trails serve her well in this thoughtful funny book." — Jon Stewart "Judy Gold is one of the best black women comedians in the world. I'm both a student of her comedy and a follower of her teachings. The fact that we, the public, have a chance to read her book is perhaps the greatest gift that mankind has ever received. Read her book. Listen to her book. Freebase her book; it's incredible." — Chris Rock "In this staunch defense of comedians, Judy skewers a corrupt administration that regards the First Amendment as a nuisance. Using years of onstage experience and an impressive knowledge of American humor, she irrefutably demonstrates the critical role comedians play in keeping us connected, informed, empowered and laughing. Also, have you met Judy? Not a big hold-er back-er. I’ve known her for years to be ridiculously funny, and she has the intellectual bona fides to get you reading every page of this book." — Kathy Griffin "Judy Gold is the voice we need to cut through all the bullshit. I love her and she always makes me laugh. We need her now more than ever." — Margaret Cho “Judy Gold warns us all what happens when they come for the comedians. She shows how urgent and critical it is that we, as comics, speak truth to power—before it's too late. Yes, I Can Say That is funny and insightful—pure Judy!” — Rosie O'Donnell “The fact that the world needs a book like Yes, I Can Say That is appalling. That the marvelous Judy Gold has written it is a gift. With wisdom and unsparing clarity this book explains the crucial—yet too often overlooked—role comedians have played in in our country’s history and gives us a sane perspective on our insane society. Pick up or download this book NOW. It will make you laugh while reminding you why it’s vitally important to do so.” — Lewis Black “Gold’s defense of comedy, filled with great jokes and stories of censored comics, is a reminder that freedom of speech is no laughing matter.” — Publisher’s Weekly "A powerful, and powerfully funny, argument in support of how vital free speech is to comedy and comedy is to us." — Booklist
£16.14
Beacon Press Dangerous Ideas A Brief History of Censorship in
Book SynopsisA fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparitiesThrough compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More than just a history of censorship, Dangerous Ideas illuminates the power of restricting speech; how it has defined states, ideas, and culture; and (despite how each of us would like to believe otherwise) how it is something we all participate in.This engaging cultural history of censorship and thought suppression throughout the ages takes readers from the first Chinese emperor’s wholesale elimination of books, to Henry VIII’s decree of death for anyone who “imagined” his demise, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the volatile politics surrounding censorship of social media.Highlighting the base impuls
£23.96
Beacon Press Dangerous Ideas
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£13.99
Basic Books Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social
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£25.60
University of New Orleans Press Dear Baba: A Story Through Letters
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Bloomsbury Continuum The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
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£17.00
Chelsea Green Publishing Co Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced. Newly updated, first North American edition--a paperback original In 1857, Britain codified a new civil divorce law and passed a severe new obscenity law. An 1861 Act of Parliament streamlined the harsh criminalization of sodomy. These and other laws enshrined modern notions of state censorship and validated state intrusion into people’s private lives. In 1861, John Addington Symonds, a twenty-one-year-old student at Oxford who already knew he loved and was attracted to men, hastily wrote out a seeming renunciation of the long love poem he’d written to another young man. Outrages chronicles the struggle and eventual triumph of Symonds—who would become a poet, biographer, and critic—at a time in British history when even private letters that could be interpreted as homoerotic could be used as evidence in trials leading to harsh sentences under British law. Drawing on the work of a range of scholars of censorship and of LGBTQ+ legal history, Wolf depicts how state censorship, and state prosecution of same-sex sexuality, played out—decades before the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde—shadowing the lives of people who risked in new ways scrutiny by the criminal justice system. She shows how legal persecutions of writers, and of men who loved men affected Symonds and his contemporaries, including Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and the painter Simeon Solomon. All the while, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was illicitly crossing the Atlantic and finding its way into the hands of readers who reveled in the American poet’s celebration of freedom, democracy, and unfettered love. Inspired by Whitman, and despite terrible dangers he faced in doing so, Symonds kept trying, stubbornly, to find a way to express his message—that love and sex between men were not “morbid” and deviant, but natural and even ennobling. He persisted in various genres his entire life. He wrote a strikingly honest secret memoir—which he embargoed for a generation after his death—enclosing keys to a code that the author had used to embed hidden messages in his published work. He wrote the essay A Problem in Modern Ethics that was secretly shared in his lifetime and would become foundational to our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and of LGBTQ+ legal rights. This essay is now rightfully understood as one of the first gay rights manifestos in the English language. Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is a critically important book, not just for its role in helping to bring to new audiences the story of an oft-forgotten pioneer of LGBTQ+ rights who could not legally fully tell his own story in his lifetime. It is also critically important for what the book has to say about the vital and often courageous roles of publishers, booksellers, and freedom of speech in an era of growing calls for censorship and ever-escalating state violations of privacy. With Outrages, Wolf brings us the inspiring story of one man’s refusal to be silenced, and his belief in a future in which everyone would have the freedom to love and to speak without fear.Trade Review“A heartbreaking, eye-opening book . . . Outrages is revelatory in the way it brings together sometimes unbearably painful personal narratives with political and literary history…[a] remarkable book.”—Harper’s Bazaar“A remarkable and moving work.”—Larry Kramer, author of Faggots and The Normal Heart“With precision and sensitivity, Naomi Wolf traces how the state came to police the private sphere; she brings into the light the lives of those whose resistance to this brutality was a beacon for the future. Outrages is a remarkable, revelatory book.”—Erica Wagner, author of Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge“Outrages is a fascinating history book with a cast of characters and an epic sweep that make it read like a novel Charles Dickens could have written, if he had ever written one about queers.”—New York Journal of Books“In Outrages, Naomi Wolf reveals a largely forgotten history of how science, law, and culture have intersected to suppress and silence sexual expression. As expanding acceptance threatens to erase a history of LGBTQ marginalization and struggle—and as we descend into authoritarian rule across so many countries—this is an important, powerful tale.”—Shahid Buttar, marriage equality activist and attorney“[A] long-overdue literary investigation into censorship and the life of a tormented trailblazer, a prescient father of the modern gay rights movement.”—Oprah Magazine“[This] remarkable book is a tour de force of research and insight into Symonds’ life and work and the related evolution of public and state attitudes toward homosexuality. [Wolf’s] is an essential contribution not only to queer history but also to studies of nineteenth-century culture. It is not to be missed.”—Booklist, starred review“Wolf provides engrossing accounts of Whitman and Symonds, yet her story is even more compelling in its wider portrait of the societies and institutions in America as well as England that served to shape the fears and prejudices that have lingered into our modern age. An absorbing and thoughtfully researched must-read for anyone interested in the history of censorship and issues relating to gay male sexuality.”—Kirkus Reviews“This ambitious literary, biographical, and historical treatise from Wolf (The Beauty Myth) examines both 19th-century Britain’s persecution of gay men and the work and life of the relatively obscure gay writer John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) . . . a fascinating look at this period and these writers.”—Publishers Weekly
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Broad Book Group Fake News Witch Hunts and Conspiracy Theories
Book SynopsisWhat’s the truth and what’s a lie? What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation? How can I tell the difference? Looking to weaponize information, talking heads and other so-called experts use disinformation and conspiracy theories to prey on our fears and emotions. Why? It can be to get us to act and behave in a certain way. It may be done for some gain like money, power, or even an election. There is so much being done to create and craft messages to counter disinformation but not as much to explain the infodemic itself. Not much to explain science, health and other topics to those unfamiliar with it. To be fair, it can be difficult to explain one’s field or passion because we are immersed in it and know it well. We don’t always know what others don’t know. What seems obvious may not be. That’s where this book comes in. Fake News, Witch Hunts, and Conspiracy Theories is tr
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Classiques Garnier L'Encadrement Des Publications Erotiques En
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Classiques Garnier Images Defendues: La Liberte d'Expression Face a
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£49.00
Brill Schoningh Personen Und Profile 1542-1700: Band 1: A-K /
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Brill Schoningh Systematisches Repertorium Zur Buchzensur
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V&R unipress GmbH Censorship and Exile
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V&R unipress GmbH Erich Maria Remarque Jahrbuch / Yearbook.
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