The Cost of Free Speech: Pornography, Hate Speech, and their Challenge to Liberalism

Levin, A.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-09-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230237681

DOI: 10.1057/9780230293960

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 213