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You Can't Always Say What You Want
  • The Paradox of Free Speech
  • Dennis Baron
  • Published online:
    12 January 2023
    Print publication:
    28 February 2023
  • The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. 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. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.

  • 6 - Censorship

  • from Part I - A Lawless Internet
  • Nicolas P. Suzor
  • Book:
    Lawless
    Published online:
    22 June 2019
    Print publication:
    18 July 2019, pp 79-87

  • Summary

    So far, we have heard a lot about how private actors are trying to regulate the internet. Governments across the world have also been very active in trying to get internet companies to regulate what information their citizens can access and share online. The decentralized, resilient design of the internet makes government censorship much more difficult than in the mass media era, where it was much simpler to embed controls within the operations of a small number of major newspaper publishers and television and radio networks. Governments are adapting, though, and quickly becoming much more sophisticated in how they monitor and control the flow of information online.

  • Part I - A Lawless Internet

  • Nicolas P. Suzor
  • Book:
    Lawless
    Published online:
    22 June 2019
    Print publication:
    18 July 2019, pp 1-2

  • Summary

    In August 2017, several hundred white nationalists marched on the small university town of Charlottesville, Virginia. The rally turned tragic when one of the protesters rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The Washington Post characterized the protesters as “a meticulously organized, well-coordinated and heavily armed company of white nationalists.”1