George Orwell once famously said If liberty means anything at all‚ it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ This sentence sums up the very essence of free speech; it is‚ as Orwell believed‚ the mother of all civil rights. Without the unconditional freedom to offend it cannot exist. Ideas are‚ more often than not‚ dangerous things. There is little point in having freedom of speech if it only defends the most popular and innocuous of opinions. The freedom to offend can perpetrate
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beer). When they argue that wearing such T-shirts is the same as actually drinking beer‚ they ignore the basic principles of freedom of speech. The problems of drinking at schools should be dealt with through education and counseling‚ and not by censorship. Can the school make me wear a school uniform? Although schools are allowed to adopt school uniform policies‚ there are certain rules that schools must follow in doing so. One of the most important rules is that schools must allow parents to
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----------------------------------- Dec 21‚ 2004 Ethics of School Filters for the Internet ----------------------------------- School Filters for the Internet Protecting children from online pornography is a constant political issue on Capitol Hill‚ and local school boards could find themselves handed yet another federal mandate telling them how to do their jobs. The U.S. Senate recently added amendments to a large spending bill requiring schools and libraries to block student access to
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If art is publicly funded‚ censorship should be allowed. Artists should be allowed to create anything their heart desires even if it offends people however‚ if their art is being funded by a public source the first amendment should no longer apply and the art should be created in a way that the general society sees fit and is not offended by. This is a matter of great debate and one of the biggest issues is who decides if the art is appropriate. The United States Government is by no means required
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" It is the overall consensus of the common people that the extent the government is monitoring us at this current time is a violation of our fundamental rights as human beings. That this surveillance of our activity is infringing upon our privacy‚ so in turn the founding laws that our Nation was built upon‚ which includes the right to privacy in our Bill of Rights‚ are prohibiting the government from observing our actions on the internet. Although there is an equitable point at the foundation of
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distinguish between the appropriateness of such communications and their status under the First Amendment” (66). Bok believes that it is a hard decision to decide what should and should not be censored. He states that “one reason why the power of censorship is so dangerous is that it is extremely difficult to decide when a particular communication is offensive enough to warrant exclusion or to weigh the degree of offensiveness against the potential value of the communication” (67). Working through
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sess (-ss) tr.v. as·sessed‚ as·sess·ing‚ as·sess·es 1. To estimate the value of (property) for taxation. 2. To set or determine the amount of (a payment‚ such as a tax or fine). 3. To charge (a person or property) with a special payment‚ such as a tax or fine. 4. Sports To charge a player‚ coach‚ or team with (a foul or penalty). 5. To determine the value‚ significance‚ or extent of; appraise. See Synonyms at estimate. [Middle English assessen‚ from Old French assesser‚ from Latin assidre
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The Motion Picture Production Code In 1930 ‚ The Production Code was introduced. The Hayes Code was essentially censorship of movies. It imposed a very strict‚ conservative moral code on the movies‚ completely banning sex‚ nudity‚ profanity‚ gore... from all films. And beyond that‚ it regulated themes as well‚ insisting‚ for instance‚ that the bad guys always get punished and that the clergy be shown in a generally favorable light. The code focused on the the audience and its desires that the
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Freedom of Speech: Abused from Abroad Peter A. Purdon Ppurdo1632@my.sullivan.edu CSC302X - Social‚ Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing Connie Eyle‚ Instructor Abstract Foreign hate groups are using America’s servers to circumvent their countries restrictions. As a responsible international citizen‚ America should revise our policies to allow the restriction of this right as applied to non-American groups hosting their message in our country. The constitution allows for the freedom of speech
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A Summary of Andrew Koppleman’s Essay ‘DOES OBSCENITY CAUSE MORAL HARM?’ Koppleman’s essay attempts to look at the obscenity law what he calls the ‘obscenity doctrine’ and its usage of the phrase ‘moral harm’. He criticizes the law as he feels that it is too crude and is not workable hence it should be abandoned. Koppleman also believes that the fundamentals of the law have never really been addressed adequately and what the law seeks to protect seems to be misunderstood in some sense. Koppleman
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