Restricting Freedoms: Limitations on the Individual in Contemporary America
- ISBN-10
- 1412849721
- ISBN-13
- 9781412849722
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-01
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Authors
- Vladimir Shlapentokh, Eric Beasley
Description
In its application, the First Amendment has become one-sided. Even though America is virtually drowning in speech, the First Amendment only applies to the speaker s delivery of speech. Left out of consideration is the one participant in the communications process who is the most vulnerable and least protected: the helpless recipient of offensive speech. In Rediscovering a Lost Freedom, 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. This work proposes a government-facilitated private right to censor. Book jacket.
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