Opposing Viewpoints: Free Speech Should Not Be Regulated

Opposing Viewpoints:Freedom of Speech Should Not Be Regulated

Article: Free Speech Should Not Be Regulated

summary of article (provided by Gale Opposing Viewpoints):

In the following viewpoint, Oliver Kamm contends that free speech must be protected because people's feelings cannot be legislated. The author alleges that speech at its most extreme draws attention to social problems and stimulates debate, and moderating speech undermines this process. In fact, Kamm argues that if the state has the power to legislate its citizens' sensibilities, its power is, in effect, limitless. Furthermore, he claims that ideas alone do not merit respect—ideas earn respect through their intellectual resilience. Kamm is an author and columnist for the Times (UK).

citation of source:  

Kamm, Oliver. "Free Speech Should Not Be Regulated." Civil Liberties. Ed. Auriana

     Ojeda. San Diego:Greenhaven Press, 2004. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "The 

     Tyranny of Moderation." Index on Censorship (Feb. 2007): 82-86. Gale Opposing 

     Viewpoints In Context. Web. 27 Oct. 2012.

 

Opposing Viewpoints: Freedom of Speech Has Limits

Opposing Viewpoints: Freedom of Speech

 Supporting a viewpoint on regulating a persons right to free speech

Article: Free Speech Has Limits

Free Speech Has Limits 

summary of article from Gale Opposing Viewpoints:
In the following viewpoint, Steven J. Heyman proposes that free speech is an alienable right and is limited by other civil rights. He supports a humanist view of the First Amendment, suggesting that it was originally intended to promote autonomy and democratic self-government while protecting human dignity and equality. According to Heyman, the regulation of free speech is needed to defend individual privacy, security, and reputation. Additionally, the author maintains that some forms of hate speech and pornography are debasing and must be regulated. Heyman is a professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of Free Speech and Human Dignity, from which this viewpoint is excerpted.

citation of article:

Heyman, Steven J. "Free Speech Has Limits." Free Speech and Human Dignity. 

     New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Rpt. in Civil Liberties. Ed. Auriana 

     Ojeda. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale 

     Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 27 Oct. 2012.