The Freedom to Read
Author | : American Library Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : American Library Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joel Simon |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0231538332 |
An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public. Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian governments, militants, criminals, and terrorists, who all seek to use technology, political pressure, and violence to set the global information agenda. Reporting from Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and Mexico, among other hotspots, Simon finds journalists under threat from all sides. The result is a growing crisis in information—a shortage of the news we need to make sense of our globalized world and fight human rights abuses, manage conflict, and promote accountability. Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, he calls on “global citizens,” U.S. policy makers, international law advocates, and human rights groups to create a global freedom-of-expression agenda tied to trade, climate, and other major negotiations. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and developing a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrupt forces that seek to manipulate the world's news. “Wise and insightful. [Simon] offers hope to all who care about maintaining the free flow of information in a world full of would-be censors.”—Ann Cooper, Columbia Journalism School
Author | : Article 19 (Organization) |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Turkey. United Kingdom. Yugoslavia.
Author | : Péter Molnár |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2015-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9633860571 |
This book focuses on regulatory challenges of creating and sustaining freedom of speech and freedom of information two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, in global, comparative context. Some chapters overview, others address specific issues, or describe country case studies. Instead of trying to provide an exhaustive assessment which in one volume might not reach deeper analyzes of contextual details, this book will shed light on and help better understanding of general challenges for freedom of speech and information through varying comparative examples and highlighting important regulatory questions.
Author | : Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838913253 |
Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this volume includes documents which discuss such foundational issues as The Library Bill of RightsProtecting the freedom to readALA’s Code of EthicsHow to respond to challenges and concerns about library resourcesMinors and internet activityMeeting rooms, bulletin boards, and exhibitsCopyrightPrivacy, including the retention of library usage records
Author | : Nadine Strossen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2018-04-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 019085913X |
The updated paperback edition of HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. As "hate speech" has no generally accepted definition, we hear many incorrect assumptions that it is either absolutely unprotected or absolutely protected from censorship. Rather, U.S. law allows government to punish hateful or discriminatory speech in specific contexts when it directly causes imminent serious harm. Yet, government may not punish such speech solely because its message is disfavored, disturbing, or vaguely feared to possibly contribute to some future harm. "Hate speech" censorship proponents stress the potential harms such speech might further: discrimination, violence, and psychic injuries. However, there has been little analysis of whether censorship effectively counters the feared injuries. Citing evidence from many countries, this book shows that "hate speech" are at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. Therefore, prominent social justice advocates worldwide maintain that the best way to resist hate and promote equality is not censorship, but rather, vigorous "counterspeech" and activism.
Author | : Christine Zuchora-Walske |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761359958 |
Americans are sharply divided on the issue of Internet censorship. This book examines the history of censorship in the United States as well as current federal, state, and local laws. It provides the opinions and perspectives of government and business leaders, activists, and ordinary Americans on both sides of the issue.
Author | : Catherine J. Ross |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2015-10-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674915771 |
American public schools often censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Lessons in Censorship brings clarity to a bewildering array of court rulings that define the speech rights of young citizens in the school setting. Catherine J. Ross examines disputes that have erupted in our schools and courts over the civil rights movement, war and peace, rights for LGBTs, abortion, immigration, evangelical proselytizing, and the Confederate flag. She argues that the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational mission and threatens democracy. From the 1940s through the Warren years, the Supreme Court celebrated free expression and emphasized the role of schools in cultivating liberty. But the Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts courts retreated from that vision, curtailing certain categories of student speech in the name of order and authority. Drawing on hundreds of lower court decisions, Ross shows how some judges either misunderstand the law or decline to rein in censorship that is clearly unconstitutional, and she powerfully demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Supreme Court’s initial affirmation of students’ expressive rights. Placing these battles in their social and historical context, Ross introduces us to the young protesters, journalists, and artists at the center of these stories. Lessons in Censorship highlights the troubling and growing tendency of schools to clamp down on off-campus speech such as texting and sexting and reveals how well-intentioned measures to counter verbal bullying and hate speech may impinge on free speech. Throughout, Ross proposes ways to protect free expression without disrupting education.
Author | : Article 19 (Organization) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
The London-based Article 19 International Centre on Censorship has compiled worldwide data on information freedom and its violations into the most complete source of its kind. This report is the only human rights survey focusing on freedom of opinion and expression, with extensive country-by-country analysis of information laws and media activity. This sourcebook for journalists, activists, political scientists, and legal professionals details both progress and setbacks in freedom of expression. In addition to the 77 country surveys, which include Unesco general statistics, the report provides a mini-encyclopedia of "Themes and Issues" in information freedom as of November 1990. ISBN 0-8389-2156-6: $39.00 (For use only in the library).
Author | : Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika |
Publisher | : Council of Europe |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2017-08-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
European Convention on Human Rights – Article 10 – Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. In the context of an effective democracy and respect for human rights mentioned in the Preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights, freedom of expression is not only important in its own right, but it also plays a central part in the protection of other rights under the Convention. Without a broad guarantee of the right to freedom of expression protected by independent and impartial courts, there is no free country, there is no democracy. This general proposition is undeniable. This handbook is a practical tool for legal professionals from Council of Europe member states who wish to strengthen their skills in applying the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in their daily work.