The fight for free speech : ten cases that define our First Amendment freedoms /
Ian Rosenberg.
- Paperback edition first
- xii, 299 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-282) and index.
Introduction -- The Women's March and the marketplace of ideas -- Take a knee and the Pledge of Allegiance -- Libel, actual malice, and the civil rights movement -- Student speech from National School Walkout Day to the Vietnam War -- Stormy Daniels and the Pentagon Papers -- Flipping off the president and fuck the draft -- Seven dirty words, Samantha Bee, and indecency -- Saturday Night Live, Hustler, and the power of parody -- Nazis in Charlottesville, funeral protests, and speakers we hate -- Social media, public parks and the 'vast democratic forums of the Internet' -- Afterword.
"Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question--from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee's expletives, from neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels-- and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers"--
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Freedom of speech--United States. Libertad de expresión--Estados Unidos