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FREEDOM OF SPEECH :warning: - Coggle Diagram
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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4.1. Communication paradigms
4.1.2 Free Speech Principles
i. Written for offensive &/or controversial speech & ideas
ii. Restriction on the power of government, not individuals or private business
4.1.1. Regulating Communication Media
3 part framework for First Amendment Protection &
government regulation of communications media that developed in The United States in the 20th century
i. Print Media (newspaper, magazines)
ii. Broadcast (television, radio)
iii. Common carries (telephones, postal system)
4.2 Controlling Speech
4.2.3 Offensive speech: what is it? what is illegal?
What was already illegal?
• Lacks literary, artistic, social, political, or scientific value
• Depict a sexual act against state law
4.2.4 Censorship Laws & Alternatives
Alternatives to censorship
Major internet censorship laws
• Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA)
i. More limited than CDA
• Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA)
i. Requires schools & libraries that participate in certain federal programs to install filtering software
• Communication Decency Act of 1996 (CDA)
i. Made it a crime to make available to anyone under 18 any obscene
Video games
4.2.1 Spam
4.2.2 Child Pornography & Sexting
4.3 Posting, selling, & leaking sensitive material
4.3.2. Website with risks
4.3.3. Leaks (wikileaks, climategate)
• Potentially dangerous leaks
• Releasing a huge mass of documents
• Responsible of operators of web sites for leaks
4.3.1 Policies of large companies
4.4 Anonymity
4.4.2. Anonymizing services
4.4.3. Negative uses:
• Distribution of child porno
• Aids fraud
• Harassment
• Theft
4.4.1. Positive uses:
4.6. Net neutrality regulations or the market?
• Net Neutrality
i. Argue for equal treatment of all customers
• Market
i. Flexibility & market incentives will benefit cust
• A variety of proposals for restrictions on how telephone & cable companies interact with their broadband customers & set fees for services
4.5 Censorship and political freedom
Tools for communication & oppression
• Shutting down comms in free countries
• Avoiding censorship: allows restrictions in 1 country to be circumvented by using networks in other, less restrict countries
• Aiding foreign censors & repressive regimes
• Creating censorship: makes it easier for 1 nation to impose restrictive std on others.