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No Such Thing as Free Speech? Performativity, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in the UK
The relationship between academic freedom and freedom of speech features prominently in public and political discussions concerning the role of...
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What Is Freedom of Speech?
It is important to have a strong, philosophical foundation of understanding regarding what constitutes freedom of speech. Through this, we may find... -
Reflexive Freedom of Speech in Practice
The overall aim of this book is to provide a framework of freedom of speech that can ensure the most just outcomes for people within our contemporary... -
Epistemic Freedom of Speech in Practice
It is not uncommon for philosophical arguments justifying normative actions to come unstuck while being bombarded during application in the ‘real... -
Freedom (of Speech)
Freedom of speech (more broadly, freedom of expression) is the right individuals have to express their opinions publicly without fearing... -
Freedom of expression meets deepfakes
Would suppressing deepfakes violate freedom of expression norms? The question is pressing because the deepfake phenomenon in its more poisonous...
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The Future of Free Speech
This book dives headfirst into the contemporary controversy over the limits of free speech. Changing conceptions of what constitutes legitimate harm...
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Conspiracy Theories, Racial Liberalism and Fantasies of Freedom
This article provides a reading of the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy, which emerged in response to Covid-19 related public health measures in 2022. It...
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Should Democracies Ban Hate Speech? Hate Speech Laws and Counterspeech
The paper’s main goal is to compare laws banning hate speech with counterspeech as an effective method of curtailing hate speech. In the first part,...
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Less is More: A Normative Evaluation of the ECtHR’s Protection of Commercial Speech
Academics and legal practitioners unanimously agree that two of the main justifications for protecting free speech are autonomy and democracy. Free...
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Freedom
The planetary impact of human agency is the signature of the Anthropocene. This not only gives the concept of freedom a central place in thinking... -
Domination and Freedom: Quality, not Quantity
Does domination make us unfree? Republicans argue that it does. Thus, they contend that the liberal conception of freedom is inadequate as it is not...
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Free Speech, Media Freedom and Regulation of Online Speech
This chapter aims to contemplate to what extent and how the proposed theoretical framework of this book, namely the double-grounded principled... -
Measuring republican freedom
Republican and so-called independence conceptions of freedom stand out from other conceptions by embedding strong modal conditions on what it takes...
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A Republican Approach to Jerkish Speech on Online Platforms
Jerkish speech on online platforms is at risk of being overlooked as a result of being comparatively insignificant next to the existence of explicit...
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Free Speech Goes Online
The increasing omnipresence of the internet since the late 1980s and the more recent triumph of social media have irreversibly changed communication.... -
Academic Freedom and Free Speech
This chapter deals with the question of how academic freedom can be justified and also protected in the contemporary world. First, I analyze two... -
Free Speech Fallacies as Meta-Argumentative Errors
Free speech fallacies are errors of meta-argument. One commits a free speech fallacy when one argues that since there are apparent restrictions on...
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Content Moderation in the Metaverse Could Be a New Frontier to Attack Freedom of Expression
This commentary examines the challenges faced by metaverse platforms in cross-border content moderation, focusing on the implications for freedom of...
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From Relational Freedom to Autonomy: An Expansion of Verbeek’s Postphenomenology
Peter-Paul Verbeek elaborates on the concept of “relational freedom” in Moralizing Technology (2011). In this paper, I propose to extend and...