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6496680 No.6496680 [Reply] [Original]

What is some good literature on free speech?

>> No.6496693

>>6496680
start with the greeks

>> No.6496708

>>6496693
Did they write about that?

>> No.6496728

John Milton's Areopagitica

>> No.6496740

Thomas Paine and J.S. Mill, perhaps?

>> No.6496950

>>6496728
This is essential.

Also, check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#History_of_dissent_and_truth

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>>6496680
Something to get started with perhaps.

>> No.6497073

>>6496680
do you mean speech free from government control or punishment, or speech free from criticism, offense, and reaction?

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6497085

The FSF and some immediate associates have published a few titles regarding free digital speech and the importance of software transparency, if you swing that way.

>> No.6497086

>>6497073
Speech free from government control or punishment and speech free from the control of social authoritarians as well.

>> No.6497172

>>6496728
Is there anyone with a bolder stance?

Milton still maintains that things can be censored after they have been read and deemed to be censorable

>> No.6497175

>>6497172
Here's someone with a pretty bold stand on free speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM

>> No.6497300

Here is a great article (though at 200+ pages I'm not sure it can still be called a article) about the history of free speech in the US http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2411139

This 25 page article talks about the new challenges free speech faces today http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2232911

This article provides a critical look at the justification for free speech and how it has actually worked in reality http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2867&context=dlj

This article focuses on the concept of "the marketplace of ideas" noting the differences between physical markets and "idea" markets http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1691952

This article talks about obscenity law in the US and how at the state/local level it is most certainly not dead as others seem to think http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2600017

This article talks about how lying deserves first amendment protection as they can help enhance political discourse or reveal the truth http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2585089