Title:
The Cost of Free Speech Pornography, Hate Speech, and their Challenge to Liberalism
Author:
Levin, Abigail. author.
ISBN:
9780230293960
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Physical Description:
IX, 213 p. online resource.
Abstract:
The distinctly contemporary proliferation of pornography and hate speech poses a challenge to liberalism's traditional ideal of a 'marketplace of ideas' facilitated by state neutrality about the content of speech. This new study argues that the liberal state ought to depart from neutrality to meet this challenge.
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Summary
The distinctly contemporary proliferation of pornography and hate speech poses a challenge to liberalism's traditional ideal of a 'marketplace of ideas' facilitated by state neutrality about the content of speech. This new study argues that the liberal state ought to depart from neutrality to meet this challenge.