In my essay on academic freedom in the USA, I argued that the legal concept of academic freedom in the USA was mostly an illusion. The essay that you are now reading continues the theme of the above essay: first by reviewing the U.S. Supreme Court cases involving freedom of speech of...
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freedom of speech and of peaceful protest continues to be unduly restricted. ★ Taiwan News, 2023-2-26: Taiwan defense ministry announced that it submitted a revised draft of the “All-out Defense Mobilization Readiness Act." for tighter controls over media and communications (taiwannews.com.tw...
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Noun1.freedom of assembly- the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution civil right- right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and...
It notes the ways in which these freedoms have received recent legislative attention in the Human Rights Act 1998, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Bill. Articles on subjects such as freedom of speech, religion, and assembly; defamation of the state and of...
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I have elsewhere and at length (e.g.,hereandhere) explained and explored the wrongness and consequences of free-speech absolutism. Here, I will focus on the question posed by the title of this post: Why freedom of speech, that is, what is the good of it?