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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"free speech"”.
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Rhetoric and Ethics of Free Speech Discourse on Gab
… platform that brands itself as a champion of free speech. Users engage in a variety of extremist speech, including arguments for free speech absolutism. I argue that if free speech arguments on Gab are allowed to play out to their logical ends, the ethical consequences will undermine not only …
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Diagnostic Comparison Between Free Speech Samples and Imitation Tasks
… compared the advantages and disadvantages of a free speech sample and imitation type task in analyzing language performance in kindergarten children. An analysis of the language performance of 15 children was completed. Their language ranged in severity from normal to severely delayed. The …
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Malcolm Ross : anti-semitism, hate and free speech in Canada
… that the courts are unwilling to curtail the freedom of expression through criminal legislation. Therefore cases such as these are increasingly handled by Human Rights legislation. If this continues, Human Rights legislation will need to be expanded to address hate speech directly.
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Bangladeshi Political Cartoons as Visual Rhetoric in the Context of Anti-Free Speech Laws
… by the Digital Security Act (DSA), an anti-freedom of speech law enacted by the ruling Awami League government in October 2018. The cartoons analyzed in this study are divided into two sets – 16 published in a two-year period prior to the enactment of the DSA, and 16 published within two …
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Hobo orator union: the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916.
… the World and participated in major fights for free speech in several dozen cities in the American west. During this period, the union organized over two dozen confrontations with municipal authorities to challenge repressive speaking laws which they considered to be de facto injunctions against …
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Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
This project deals with the free speech fight of 1911 that occurred in Kansas City and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight serves as a case study in localized Midwestern radicalism, specifically its unique manifestation in Kansas City. While many …
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An analysis of the freedom of expression policy in higher education
This study examines free speech policy in general and specifically the free speech policy at one institution of higher education in Ontario, Canada, in order to better understand the complex interconnectedness between human rights and freedom of expression. The detailed, rigorous analysis of free …
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Critiquing the UK Judiciary's Response to Article 10 Post-HRA: Undervaluing the Right to Freedom of Expression?
… the potential effect this change would have on freedom of speech in the UK was intriguing. It had been said that the common law already recognised a ‘constitutional right to free speech’, although the strongest statements for its protection seemed reserved for freedom to publish, in particular …
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Renegotiating Democracy in Public Space
… to both protect and regulate protest. Yet free speech rights are highly contested. The media are complicit in relating protesters to violence. This perception has been thoroughly constructed in the media since the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. The September 11th …
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Privacey in Cyberspace: Federal Law, Online Commerce, Citizens, and rights in Conflict with the Digital Age
… privacy rights issues increasingly linked to free speech rights and e-commerce, drive the debate of federal telecommunications policy. Traditionally, that policy has leaned toward access to encrypted communications. But must the government’s efforts of promoting law and order on the Internet …
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The policy consequences of Garcetti v. Ceballos for personnel management in public schools
… employment and the constitutional rights to free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment. The setting is public elementary and secondary schools of education (k-12), and the target audience is executive school administrators who serve as managers responsible for the development, …
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The phenomenon of delocalisation in cyberspace and its influence on international dispute resolution
… legal issues. Beside issues of contract, tort, free speech, fundamental rights, privacy and anonymity, crime and security, intellectual property, governance and regulation, procedural issues are of predominant interest. This is because procedural law is the "last link" the chain in the exercise …
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Police My Internet Presence: The Demobilization of Social Movements through Social Media
… internet has become a hubcap for democracy and free speech, the means of revolutionizing has become easier, cheaper, and more readily available for ordinary citizens signaling a shift into what I call the Social Media Screen. However, while marginalized individuals now have greater access to …
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Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000
… limits,” remaking the discursive boundaries of free speech in Canada. Informed by a range of literary critics, queer theorists, sociologists, and legal scholars, the dissertation examines compositional strategies that appropriate and exceed the practice of censorship in order to theorize what I …
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Blind Estimation of Perceptual Quality for Modern Speech Communications
Modern speech communication technologies expose users to perceptual quality degradations that were not experienced earlier with conventional telephone systems. Since perceived speech quality is a major contributor to the end user's perception of quality of service, speech quality estimation has …
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Defamation, the right to freedom of expression and libel reform in the UK: A comparative analysis of legal regulation and jurisprudence in the UK, the United States of America, Germany, and the European Court of Human Rights
Free speech advocates had long argued that the UK’s common law on defamation was too claimant friendly and as such either potentially or actually chilled free speech. The phenomenon of libel tourism to the UK, illustrated by several high profile cases and arguably the result of the claimant …
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A Matter of Interpretation: Examining the coded meanings of "safe space" in higher education communities
… who also saw such places as providing safety, freedom, activism, and intellectual discussion (Crockett, 2016; White, 2016). But critics argued that such spaces have the potential to stifle academic freedom, intellectual growth and free speech, and act as cocoons for students (Crovitz, 2016; …
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Freedom of speech as a universal value (a comparative approach from international human rights law, the first amendment, and Islamic law)
The issue of universalism in the human right of freedom of speech is one of several that continue to be debated among Muslims and Westerners. As evidence of incompatibility of Islamic law with the international law of freedom of speech, Westerners, on the basis of Muslims' reactions towards the …
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“We need to save civilization first”: examining the role of cyberlibertarian design in the disinformation culture of Reddit’s /r/The_Donald
… that assume a cyberlibertarian stance towards free speech. Seeking to understand the impact of this design politic upon our media landscape, this dissertation explores Reddit’s alt-right subreddit /r/The_Donald, utilizing a framework rooted in both science and technology studies and critical …
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How Journalists Sustain Their Autonomy under Ownership Change: A Case Study in Taiwan
… affect journalists? autonomy, a key element of free speech in a democracy. The case of China Times faces the change of managerial practice and the formalization of control after the changes in ownership. This research attempts to examine how these changes influence journalists? autonomy, and …
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