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Book Publishing in the 21st Century
Source: Pulpless.Com
Author: J. Neil Schulman
Country: United States
E-mail: jneil@pulpless.com

Describes how electronic publishing can preserve the First Amendment and save writers from blacklisting by state-chartered corporate conglomerates that now own and control all the major media.

Giving the Devil his due: Holocaust revisionism and free speech
Source: Skeptic
Author: Frank Miele
Country: United States

The author argues that applying the usual rules of the marketplace of ideas -- including open publication and the burden of making your case -- is the best way to deal with holocaust deniers. (1994)

No link between screen and real violence
Source: California State Univ.
Author: Stuart Fischoff
Country: United States

Fischoff debunks the myth that studies have established a causal link between screen violence real-life violence, despite what some anti-gun politicians and anti-pornography talking heads have been telling us. Presented as a paper to the American Psychiatric Association.

A critique of cultural protectionism
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: United States

The current taste in Australia for suppressing "foreign" culture in preference to "native" work is a backdoor attempt to promote economic protectionism in the name of a supposedly threatened national identity. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (Spring 1999)

Freedom of speech and information privacy
Source: Progress & Freedom Foundation
Author: Eugene Volokh
Country: United States

"This article argues that: (1) While privacy protection secured by contract turns out to be constitutionally sound, broader information privacy rules are not easily defensible under existing free speech law. (2) Creating new free speech exceptions to accommodate information privacy speech restrictions could have many unfortunate and unforeseen consequences." (10/00)

The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue
Source: Acton Institute/Religion & Liberty
Author: John E. Alvis
Country: United States

While modern day advocates of a free press will likely judge John Milton's teaching on freedom incomplete, such judgments risk overlooking the lasting significance of Areopagitica, the cogency and importance of its arguments in favor of freedom in its several dimensions. (8/00)

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