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Ask HN: Explorations of freedom of speech
I've asked this question in a few places, but haven't really managed to get a great deal of content to match. I'm hoping HN will forgive a slightly non-technical related question given the context and content.
I'm looking for resources on explorations of the philosophy of 'Freedom of speech'. It seems to nowadays have a lot of baggage about it - such as the fact that people seem to mistake the platform for the speech itself or that the entire concept of freedom of speech fails to take into account that some people have a much, much louder 'voice' in today's media.
I'm not looking for arguments against freedom of speech but rather for resources that explore these ideas and maybe refine the general premise of 'freedom of speech' and explore the nuances of what it means compared to 'equality of speech' or 'power of speech' or other concepts.
This is the ask mefi thread: http://ask.metafilter.com/183216/Explorations-of-freedom-of-speech
This is the reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/gns8l/looking_for_resources_on_a_more_nuanced_version/
- tokenadult 15y agoThe general resource kit for answering a question like this would be the reading list for a course on political philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/polphil/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/polphil/ http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/polphil.html http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/polphil.html Of course there are more specific resources. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pornography-censorship/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pornography-censorship/ http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim/j190/week1Meiklejohn.html http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim/j190/week1Meiklejohn.html http://www.iep.utm.edu/ockham/#SH8c http://www.iep.utm.edu/ockham/#SH8c
- steerpike 15y agoOh wow, those are some fantastic resources. What an awesome start, thank you.