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A First Amendment Junkie
581 wordsSusan Jacobys, A First Amendment Junkie, is an extremely well written and sound argument in which readers can clearly understand the purpose. From the title, A First Amendment Junkie, she gets the readers attention and even forces them to ask the question: What is a A First Amendment junkie? It is clear as early as the end of the first paragraph Jacobys thesis or major claim- that censorship of any form is wrong. At the beginning of the second paragraph she states her belief, ... in an absolute ...
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John Stuart Mill Colleges And Universities
2,582 words... e one who ultimately determines whether they consider certain speech offensive. in the rez, perhaps you could look at not the targeted groups reaction, but the university as an entity's reaction. would they find offense to the statement? also, when you look at "hate", it is the way a person feels right? so then in the phrase "hate speech", do you look at the hate that a speaker feels towards a targeted group or is it the hate that the group interprets in the actual speech? (a) hate speech is...
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Board Of Education Censoring The Internet
823 wordsShould the Internet be censored? Censorship on the Internet is a very controversial issue. Many agree that censoring violates the First Amendment of free speech. Yet many also believe that it is the governments duty to censor to protect The EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. ) is an organization against Internet censorship. The EFAs goals are to advocate the amendment of laws and regulations in Australia and elsewhere which restrict free speech... and to educate the community at large abou...
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Schools And Libraries Research Council
504 wordsOver the last several years many attempts have been made to put a limit on what can be viewed on the Internet. In 1996, it was the Communications Decency Act and in 1999 the Child Online Protection Act. Both were shot down because they were said to violate the first amendment right to free speech. Should the government have the right to limit what children view on the Internet? The government does this in places like schools and libraries. Filtering the Internet has become commonplace in most sc...
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Government Intervention Of The Internet
1,618 wordsDuring the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyone's life. The natural evolution of computers and this need for ultra-fast communications has caused a global network of interconnected computers to develop. This global net allows a person to send E-mail across the world in mere fractions of a second, and enables even the common person to access information world-wid...
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Make A Difference Presidential Elections
1,596 wordsThe issue of public information has always been a controversy in our world. One of our country's founding arguments was based on the necessity of free speech and free information. Many now believe that our government is being overly restrictive on information, blocking and controlling some aspects of free speech that first amendment advocates feel are necessary to maintain our American society. These advocates of free information have been using the nickname "hackers" for over twenty years, but ...
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Freedom Of Speech Censorship On The Internet
1,162 words... possible to visit web sites which seem relatively unoffensive and by following links to other subjects accidentally stumble upon something that might be found offensive. Another question of censorship can be raised too, what about subjects that people feel are a waste of valuable Internet resources- "should these be censored as a waste?" The question is raised: why should a university provide the platform to discuss morning cartoons or your favorite movie star? By looking at these questions ...
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Marshall Mathers Lp Parents Music Resource Center
2,642 wordsSays Who? Citizenship in America holds many rights. Among these rights are the right to vote, the right to bear arms, and the most widely treasured but largely manipulated, right to free speech. As a citizen of America the right to free speech comes along with many responsibilities, but for the small percentage that exercise their right of free speech to a large public forum, it comes with many stipulations. The more prominent figures under a barrage of criticism are those involved in the arts. ...
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People In Power Gay And Lesbian
724 wordsIf our society decides to have censorship, we compromise our freedom of speech and are left with the chore of deciding where to draw the illusive and unstable line between what should be censored and what should not. When the issue of censorship needs to be addressed question arise such as? Who will enforce it? ? and? Who will decide what is? right? ? ? Ironically, the people who censor materials to protect the common people do not have the common persons best interest in mind. It is the people ...
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19 Th Century Poor And Working Class
1,746 wordsVolumes and volumes could be written about communism, but in fact, the actual Communist Manifesto is a mere forty pages. Karl Marx, the principal former of communism as we know it now, later wrote many books fulfilling the outline or skeleton of communism, which is the Communist Manifesto. Communism cannot be summed up in one sentence, but it can be summed up in ten main ideas, sort of like the Ten Commandments of true communism. We know communism did not work, because of one main reason: it def...
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19 Th Century Poor And Working Class
1,766 wordsThe Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx Also words by Friedrich Engles and A JP Taylor Volumes and volumes could be written about communism, but in fact, the actual Communist Manifesto is a mere forty pages. Karl Marx, the principal former of communism as we know it now, later wrote many books fulfilling the outline or skeleton of communism, which is the Communist Manifesto. Communism cannot be summed up in one sentence, but it can be summed up in ten main ideas, sort of like the Ten Commandments o...
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Freedom Of Speech Law Of The Land
1,572 wordsThe Constitution: Law of the Land or Outdated News? Our constitution was written over a century ago, by our forefathers who had themes intentions. But what they did not have was a way to predict how our society has evolved, and how the Supreme Law of the Land would come under question. Many parts the Constitution have been left open to interpretation due to the changing times andstagnance of the Constitution itself. How would our forefathers feel about new issues arising? Their original intent i...
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One Can Find Illegal Drug
1,256 wordsDrugs and the Internet Since the beginning of the twentieth century, ever generation has had its own personality; its own new fad to inspire a whole new group of children and young adults, and to drive the elders crazy. The twenties had the Charleston, the fifties sported huge neon blue and pink finned automobiles. The sixties invented the hippie craze, and the seventies inspired the world with the magically funkadelic sounds of disco. The eighties were unfortunate enough to grace us with glam r...
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Staten Island Gay Rights
578 wordsTwo billboards were Homosexuality Summary Two billboards were covered up, yesterday, March 9, as the identity of the man responsible for them was revealed. These billboards angered the civic and gay rights leaders tremendously. Located in Staten Island, they condemned homosexuality by using verses from the Bible. The man responsible for this was Reverend Kristopher Okwedy of the Keyword Ministries in Staten Island. He paid $ 1, 800 to post the two signs for one month? s time. These signs cited f...
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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
2,323 wordsIntroduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release (Phillips, 1994) reported that Carnegie Mellon University had decided to block its users from accessing sexually explicit materials through the Internet: the university's president feared ...
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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
2,215 wordsIntroduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release (Phillips, 1994) reported that Carnegie Mellon University had decided to block its users from accessing sexually explicit materials through the Internet: the university's president feared ...
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Freedom Of Speech Constitution Of The United States
858 wordsDoes the government have the right to restrict public speech and expression? This seems to be a controversial question, when it actually shouldn t be. The government wasn t formed to parent the youth of America by setting the guidelines of what is appropriate for them to hear, but to guarantee the rights provided by the Constitution of the United States. Americans don t pay taxes to keep people from hearing others opinions. Society is built by a collaboration of the people s morals, ideas, and o...
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Speech Codes Free Speech
421 wordsShana Williamson Williamson 1 Professor Frankwitz English 110 A 26 October 1999 Hostility Barriers Diminish Free Speech: Campus Hate Speech Codes In recent years, a rise in verbal abuse and violence directed at people of color, lesbians, and gay men, and other historically persecuted groups has plagued the United States. Among the settings of these expressions of intolerance are college and university campuses, where bias incidents have occurred sporadically since the mid- 1980 s. Outrage, indig...
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Supreme Court Family Values
772 wordsHigh School Journalism: Breaking the Barrier Throughout the many trials and tribulations of the adolescent years teenagers try to find many different ways to express themselves and discover who they are. There are different forms of expression including music, art, fashion, and, of course, writing. Whether it is through a personal journal used to express private feelings, or through the high school publications such as the school newspaper or yearbook. These forms of expression give teens an out...
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Difficult To Determine Freedom Of Speech
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