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"A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture. Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"This book outlines the historical context of laws regulating rights to freedom of speech, and explores future threats to these freedoms. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them."--
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English
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In Cancel Culture, Alan Dershowitz—New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars—makes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint against the often overeager impulse to completely cancel individuals and institutions at the ever-changing whims of social media-driven crowds.
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders...
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 220 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a century. The rise of the Internet has made this problem more urgent. We live in an age of corporate and government surveillance of our lives. And our free speech culture has created an anything-goes...
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Humanix Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In Cushed: Big Tech's War on Free Speech, Buck exposes the bullying and predatory behavior from the Big Tech giants who have used their technologies and their unbelievable market shares to stifle commerce and censor free speech. He spells out the inside details of how these companies restrict free markets, stop competition, increase prices, and ultimately hurt consumers.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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xiii, 443 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works,...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Often hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy, the enemy of tyranny, and the gateway to enlightenment. Research reveals a strong correlation between freedom of speech and democracy, innovation, and advancements in human rights, as well as reductions in conflict, corruption, and discrimination. But for all its benefits, free speech remains a challenging, controversial, and often counterintuitive principle, easily subject...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xii, 173 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Liars are causing devastating problems. They are endangering public health. They are threatening self-government. They are destroying the reputation of good people - and inflating the reputation of people who are not so good. Nonetheless, falsehoods ought not to be censored or regulated, even if they are lies. Free societies allow them. Public officials should not be allowed to act as the truth police. A key reason is that we cannot trust officials...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xxv, 199 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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We live in an era in which offensive speech is on the rise. The emergence of the alt-right alone has fueled a marked increase in racist and anti-Semitic speech. Given its potential for harm, should this speech be banned? Nadine Strossen's HATE dispels the many misunderstandings that have clouded the perpetual debates about hate speech vs. free speech. She argues that an expansive approach to the First Amendment is most effective at promoting democracy,...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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x, 272 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Civility is often treated as an essential virtue in liberal democracies that promise to protect diversity as well as active disagreement in the public sphere. Yet the fear that our tolerant society faces a crisis of incivility is gaining ground. Politicians and public intellectuals call for more civility as the solution--but is civility really a virtue? Or is it something more sinister--a covert demand for conformity that silences dissent? Mere Civility...
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RP Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 178 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"A nonpartisan, unbiased look at the First Amendment and how it informs our daily lives, this book clearly explains the fundamentals of American politics to middle grade readers"--
18) Wake up
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
19) Ahed's knee
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
A celebrated Israeli filmmaker named Y arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother's terminal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening, a government employee, asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at the film2s Q & A. Told over one day, the film depicts Y as he battles against the loss of freedom...
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Publisher
New English Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Springtime for Snowflakes: 'Social Justice' and Its Postmodern Parentage is a daring and candid memoir. NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald - the notorious @AntiPCNYUProf - illuminates the obscurity of postmodern theory to track down the ideas and beliefs that spawned the contemporary social justice creed and movement. In fast-paced creative non-fiction, Rectenwald begins by recounting how his Twitter capers and media exposure met with the swift and...
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