The First Amendment gives Americans the right to freedom of speech‚ but this freedom is not unlimited! For example‚ one does not have the right to lie. We still have laws which prohibit lying under oath and misrepresenting products and services. It is a great abuse of the First Amendment to say it gives the vile and
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still evolving and figuring out how to keep the citizens safe and equal under the law. A reoccurring controversial topic is the first amendment in the Constitution. What exactly is protected under the Freedom of Speech? Freedom of Expression allows for an American citizen to have the right to free speech and a free press. Expressions include more than just words‚ they compromise of clothing‚ gestures‚ movements‚ and other expressive nonverbal conduct. The controversial part is exactly what can a citizen
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down on potential threats has become priority. Not only are there threats of mass violence‚ but racist speech and sexist speech‚ that some would define as fighting words. A question to ask is when does speech become a fighting word. Having to decide what speech is protected by the first amendment‚ worthwhile‚ and what speech has no social value and is not protected‚ worthless‚ is controversial. Speech that is defined as worthless include: lewd‚ obscene‚ profane‚ libelous‚ and fighting words. Focusing
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When discussing free speech‚ it is important to recall the purpose of having the right of free speech. It allows the common people to speak their minds publically without punishment. Protests greatly use free speech to deliver their messages. Political opinions‚ personal stories‚ and bad restaurant reviews can be shared without punishment. On the other hand‚ our freedoms also allow individuals to share their negative emotions in the forms of online bullying‚ hate speech‚ and YouTube comments. The
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Education” is the primary advocate group for the removal of speech codes on college campuses‚ working to draw attention to the growing censorship problems and striving to repeal unconstitutional restrictions. FIRE was formed in order to “empower campus activists‚ reform restrictive policies‚ and inform the public about the state of rights on our campuses” (FIRE. N.p.‚ n.d. Web). The organization rates colleges yearly on their policies regarding free speech and assigns either a green‚ yellow‚ or red light correlating
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Today i will talk about cyberbullying and why it is not allowed and it can cause so much deaths and how many people it has killed over the years because of it. Cyberbullying is not allowed and you can get arrested for it because you found out that someone has killed themselves over the harsh words you said over the internet. Always be nice on the internet don’t cyberbully or you could go to jail or even worse have consequences over your action. If u are being bullied on the internet don’t kill yourself
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Shockey‚ K. (2016). Intellectual Freedom Is Not Social Justice. Progressive Librarian‚ (44)‚ 101-110. Kyle Shockey is a Resource Description Specialist at the American University. His article discusses academic freedom and its relationship to the LIS Curriculum. He begins by discussing Professor Steven Salatia losing his tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the professor used Twitter to criticize the Israel Defense Force during the summer of 2014. Given that
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PRESS FREEDOM IN NIGERIAN 1999 CONSTITUTION Introduction May 3 of every year is World Press Freedom Day. The day represents an opportunity to commemorate the fundamental principles of press freedom around the globe and to pay solemn tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty. Thomas Jefferson‚ the third President of the United States (1801-1809)‚ once said he would rather have newspapers without government than government without newspapers. In America they say freedom of the
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Hate speech as defined by the legal dictionary is described as follows: “Hate speech is spoken words that are offensive‚ insulting‚ and/or threatening to an individual or group based on a particular attribute of that person or persons being targeted. Targeted attributes include such traits as ethnic background‚ sexual orientation‚ race‚ or disability‚ though there are other target attributes. In the U.S.‚ another term for hate speech is “fighting words‚” as such talk is likely to provoke an
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Mill’s Definition of Freedom John Locke believes that man ought to have more freedom in political society than John Stuart Mill does. John Locke’s The Second Treatise of Government and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty are influential and potent literary works which while outlining the conceptual framework of each thinkers ideal state present two divergent visions of the very nature of man and his freedom. John Locke and John Stuart Mill have different views regarding how much freedom man ought to have
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