Full Description
Free expression is under threat. Social media and "fake news," misinformation, and disinformation have prompted governments to propose new forms of regulation that are deeply challenging to free expression. Hate speech, far-right populism, campus speech debates, and censorship consistently make headlines in Canada and abroad.Dilemmas of Free Expression offers forward-looking appraisals of ways to confront challenging moral issues, policy problems, and controversies that pay heed to the fundamental right to free expression. The essays in this volume offer timely analyses of the law, policy, and philosophical challenges, and social repercussions to our understanding of expressive freedom in relation to government obligations and public discourse.Free expression and its limits are multifaceted, deeply complex, inherently values-based, and central to the ability of a society to function. Dilemmas of Free Expression addresses the challenges of limiting free expression across a host of issues through an analyses by leading and emerging voices in a number of disciplines, including political science, law, philosophy, and Indigenous studies.
Contents
IntroductionEmmett Macfarlane1. Does Freedom of Expression Have a Future?Richard Moon2. Hate Speech, Harm, and RightsEmmett Macfarlane3. Process Matters: Postal Censorship, Your Ward News, and s.2(b) of the CharterJamie Cameron4. Freedom of Expression in an Age of Disinformation: Charter Considerations for Regulating Political Speech in Canadian ElectionsErin Crandall and Andrea Lawlor5. Regulating Expression on Social MediaCarissima Mathen6. The Right to Protest and Counter-Protest: Complexities and ConsiderationsCara Faith Zwibel7. Positive Rights, Negative Freedoms, and the Margins of Expressive FreedomBenjamin Oliphant8. Compelled Speech: A Conscience- and Integrity-Based ApproachLeonid Sirota9. Balancing Freedom of Expression and Access to the Courts: Assessing Ontario's Anti-SLAPP LegislationByron M. Sheldrick10. Denial, Deplatforming, and Democracy: Thinking About Climate Change in the Age of Social MediaChristopher Bennett11. The Tension Between Freedom of Expression and Language Rights in Canada: The Ford and Devine Legacy after Thirty YearsStephanie Chouinard and Emmanuelle Richez12. Teiakwanahstahsontehrha' We Extend the RaftersDavid Newhouse13. Faculty Free Speech in Canada: Trends, Risks, and Possible FuturesJeffrey Adam Sachs14. On Silence: Student Refrainment From SpeechShannon Dea15. Deplatforming in Theory and Practice: The Ann Coulter DebacleDax D'Orazio
