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Freedom of Speech and Its Limits (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
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Freedom of Speech and Its Limits (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 38
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In authoritarian states, the discourse on freedom of speech,
conducted by those opposed to non-democratic governments, focuses
on the core aspects of this freedom: on a right to criticize the
government, a right to advocate theories arid ideologies contrary
to government-imposed orthodoxy, a right to demand institutional
reforms, changes in politics, resignation of the incompetent and
the corrupt from positions of authority. The claims for freedom of
speech focus on those exercises of freedom that are most
fundamental and most beneficial to citizens - and which are denied
to them by the government. But in a by-and large democratic polity,
where these fundamental benefits of freedom of speech are generally
enjoyed by the citizens, the public and scholarly discourse on
freedom of speech hovers about the peripheries of that freedom; the
focus is on its outer boundaries rather than at the central
territory of freedom of speech. Those borderline cases, in which
people who are otherwise genuinely committed to the core aspects of
freedom of speech may sincerely disagree, include pornography,
racist hate speech and religious bigoted expressions, defamation of
politicians and of private persons, contempt of court, incitement
to violence, disclosure of military or commercial secrets,
advertising of merchandise such as alcohol or cigarettes or of
services and entertainment such as gambling and prostitution."
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