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Free Speech: Supreme Court Opinions from the Beginning to the
Roberts Court is a curated collection of Supreme Court opinions on
the topic of free speech. These opinions help students learn how
justices think, reason, express themselves, wrestle with
contentious issues, and reach decisions on them. The book covers a
century of free speech opinions, from the classics to recent
decisions by the Roberts Court, that address subversive and
offensive speech, incitement to violence, obscenity, and whether
corporations have First Amendment rights. It features many
precedent-setting cases including Schenck v. United States
(shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater), the Pentagon Papers case,
and Citizens United. Each opinion has been edited to eliminate
unnecessary legal and procedural side issues and ensure
accessibility for all readers. The opinions are framed by
commentary that provides context and analysis to educate readers
about the extent to which we have free speech and how the
principles were established. Free Speech is well-suited to
political science, history, rhetoric, communications, law, and
legal studies courses, and is an excellent reference tool for legal
practitioners.
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online - a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the
United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the
cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write,
generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the
issue has a great deal more to do with social norms rooted in a web
of cultural assumptions about the function of rhetoric in social
organization generally, and in a democratic society specifically.
The dominant, liberal notion of free speech in the United States,
assumed to be self-evidently true, is, in fact, a particular
historical and cultural formation, rooted in Enlightenment
philosophies and dependent on a collection of false narratives
about the founding of the country, the role of speech and media in
its development, and the relationship between capitalism and
democracy. Most importantly, this notion of freedom of speech
relies on a warped sense of the function of rhetoric in democratic
social organization. By privileging individual expression, at the
expense of democratic deliberation, the liberal notion of free
speech functions largely to suppress rather than promote meaningful
public discussion and debate, and works to sustain unequal
relations of power. The presumed democratization of the public
sphere, via the Internet, raises more questions than it answers-who
has access and who doesn't, who commands attention and why, and
what sorts of effects such expression actually has. We need to
think a great deal more carefully about the values subsumed and
ignored in an uncritical attachment to a particular version of the
public sphere. This book seeks to illuminate the ways in which
cultural framing diminishes the complexity of free speech and
sublimates a range of value-choices. A more fully democratic
society requires a more critical view of freedom of speech.
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