The fight for free speech ten cases that define our First Amendment freedoms

"Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question--from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee's expletives, from neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the m...

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Main Author: Rosenberg, Ian (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • The Women's March and the marketplace of ideas
  • Take a knee and the Pledge of Allegiance
  • Libel, actual malice, and the civil rights movement
  • Student speech from the Vietnam War to the National School Walkout Day
  • Stormy Daniels, prior restraints, and the Pentagon Papers
  • Flipping off the president and fuck the draft
  • Samantha Bee, Seven dirty words, and indecency
  • Saturday Night Live, Hustler, and the power of parody
  • Nazis in Charlottesville, funeral protests, and speakers we hate
  • Social media, public parks and the 'vast democratic forums of the Internet'.