Rediscovering a lost freedom : the First Amendment right to censor unwanted speech / Patrick M. Garry.
2017
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Rediscovering a lost freedom : the First Amendment right to censor unwanted speech / Patrick M. Garry.
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2017.
Description
1 online resource (ix, 166 pages)
Formatted Contents Note
chapter Introduction
chapter 1 The Outdated Arguments Used to Defend Modern Media Speech
chapter 2 The First Amendment Right of Control
chapter 3 The Constitutional Parameters of a Private Right to Censor
chapter 4 Judicial Support for a Private Right to Censor
chapter 5 Implementing a Private Right to Censor
chapter 6 Political Speech and the First Amendment
chapter 7 Defining Speech in an Entertainment Age: The Video Game Example.
chapter 1 The Outdated Arguments Used to Defend Modern Media Speech
chapter 2 The First Amendment Right of Control
chapter 3 The Constitutional Parameters of a Private Right to Censor
chapter 4 Judicial Support for a Private Right to Censor
chapter 5 Implementing a Private Right to Censor
chapter 6 Political Speech and the First Amendment
chapter 7 Defining Speech in an Entertainment Age: The Video Game Example.
Summary
"Since ratification of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea change in American life. When the amendment was ratified, individuals were almost completely free of unwanted speech; but today they are besieged by it. Indeed, the First Amendment has, for all practical purposes, been commandeered by the media to justify intrusions of offensive speech into private life.In its application, the First Amendment has become one-sided. Even though America is virtually drowning in speech, the First Amendment only applies to the speaker's delivery of speech. Left out of consideration is the one participant in the communications process who is the most vulnerable and least protected--the helpless recipient of offensive speech. In Rediscovering a Lost Freedom, Patrick Garry addresses what he sees as the most pressing speech problem of the twenty-first century: an often irresponsible media using the First Amendment as a shield behind which to hide its socially corrosive speech. To Garry, the First Amendment should protect the communicative process as a whole. And for this process to be free and open, listeners should have as much right to be free from unwanted speech as speakers do of not being thrown in jail for uttering unpopular ideas.Rediscovering a Lost Freedom seeks to modernize the First Amendment. With other constitutional rights, changed circumstances have prompted changes in the law. Restrictions on political advertising seek to combat the perceived influences of big money; the Second Amendment right to bear arms, due to the prevalence of violence in America, has been curtailed; and the Equal Protection clause has been altered to permit affirmative action programs aimed at certain racial and ethnic groups. But when it comes to the flood of violent and vulgar media speech, there has been no change in First Amendment doctrines. This work proposes a government-facilitated private right to censor. Redisco"--Provided by publisher.
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First published 2006 by Transaction Publishers.
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Taylor & Francis Online
Language
English
ISBN
9781315128184 (e-book : PDF)
9781351494335 (e-book: Mobi)
9780765803221 (hardback)
9781412808606 (paperback)
9781351494335 (e-book: Mobi)
9780765803221 (hardback)
9781412808606 (paperback)
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