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Some legal scholars (such as Tim Wu of Columbia University) have argued that the traditional issues of free speech—that "the main threat to free speech" is the censorship of "suppressive states", and that "ill-informed or malevolent speech" can and should be overcome by "more and better speech" rather than censorship—assumes scarcity of ...
In United States law, the bad tendency principle was a test [1] that permitted restriction of freedom of speech by government if it is believed that a form of speech has a sole tendency to incite or cause illegal activity. The principle, formulated in Patterson v.
During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that makes it harder to hold people responsible for harassment online could send a troubling symbolic message about free speech to institutions other than ...
America has a long history of defending free speech, even speech that hurts. Shutting it down now could have real repercussions for our nation. Why silencing speech, even hurtful speech, makes us ...
When you support Reason, you support free speech, open debate, the politics of persuasion—and even, now and then, some feisty arguments. We believe in the value of debate so much that later this ...
[16] [18] Chafee argued in Free Speech in the United States that a better analogy in Schenck might be a man who stands in a theatre and warns the audience that there are not enough fire exits. [19] [20] In his introductory remarks to a 2006 debate in defense of free speech, writer Christopher Hitchens parodied the Holmes judgment by opening ...
• The Free Speech Coalition's Mike Stabile dissects a particularly bad age verification bill that's moving forward in Tennessee. Under the measure, which passed the state's Senate Finance ...