Rediscovering a Lost Freedom - The First Amendment Right to Censor Unwanted Speech

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Garry Klappentext Rediscovering a Lost Freedom seeks to modernie the First Amendment. 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. Zusammenfassung Since ratification of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea change in American life Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 The Outdated Arguments Used to Defend Modern Media Speech, 2 The First Amendment Right of Control, 3 The Constitutional Parameters of a Private Right to Censor, 4 Judicial Support for a Private Right to Censor, 5 Implementing a Private Right to Censor, 6 Political Speech and the First Amendment, 7 Defining Speech in an Entertainment Age: The Video Game Example, Conclusion: The First Amendment in a Media-Saturated Society, Index

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Garry, Patrick M. Garry, Garry Patrick
• Assisted by: Patrick Garry (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2006
• EAN: 9780765803221
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0322-1
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech