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Liberal Democracy, Law and the Citizen Speaker - Regulating Online Speech (Hardcover)
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Liberal Democracy, Law and the Citizen Speaker - Regulating Online Speech (Hardcover)
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This book delivers an original, theoretically informed analysis of
the legal regulation of online speech. Rejecting the narrow
pluralism of elitist and deliberative accounts of the citizen's
role in political discourse, the book defends a participatory
account of speech in non-deliberative settings. The latter account
of political pluralism best captures the republican democratic
aspiration for popular, on-going authorship of the laws and the
centrality of freedom to dissent in democratic theory. The legal
and policy implications for governments and social media platforms
of this inclusive envisioning of public discourse are then
elaborated upon. In the digital world, anyone with access to the
internet can be a speaker. Speech on public platforms has become
democratised. At the same time, aspects of online speech are
plainly problematic. Concerns exist about disinformation, 'fake
news', 'deep fakes', 'weaponised speech' and 'trolls'. Offensive
speech and the polarising effects of robustly expressed political
opinion are also troublesome. These assorted downsides of
democratised speech are said to undermine the integrity of
democratic processes and institutions. Public debate is distorted
and coarsened and the electorate are misled. How ought the liberal
democratic state respond to these challenges? The discussion is
intended to be read by academics and researchers with interests in
democratic theory, digital communications and freedom of
expression. It offers a stimulating and distinctive contribution to
debates about online speech.
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