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020 _a9781509945856
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024 7 _a10.5040/9781509945856
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)1290324549
040 _aCaBNVSL
_beng
_erda
_cCaBNVSL
_dCaBNVSL
050 4 _aK4345
_b.C735 2022eb
082 0 4 _a342.0853
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100 1 _aCram, Ian,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aLiberal democracy, law and the citizen speaker :
_bregulating online speech /
_cIan Cram.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aLondon [England] :
_bHart Publishing,
_c2022
264 2 _a[London, England] :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2021
300 _a1 online resource (288 pages).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _a1. Damaging Democracy? -- 2. Legal norms, deliberative democracy and 'improved' public discourse -- 3. Rationality v Radical Pluralism -- 4. Official responses to problematic speech -- 5. Re-opening the channels of political change
506 _aAbstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
520 _a"This book delivers an original, theoretically informed analysis of the legal regulation of online speech. Rejecting the narrow pluralism of elitist and deliberative accounts of the citizen's role in political discourse, the book defends a participatory account of speech in non-deliberative settings. The latter account of political pluralism best captures the republican democratic aspiration for popular, on-going authorship of the laws and the centrality of freedom to dissent in democratic theory. The legal and policy implications for governments and social media platforms of this inclusive envisioning of public discourse are then elaborated. In the digital world, anyone with access to the internet can be a speaker. Speech on public platforms has become democratized. At the same time, aspects of online speech are plainly problematic. Concerns exist about disinformation, 'fake news', 'deep fakes', 'weaponized speech' and 'trolls'. Offensive speech and the polarizing effects of robustly expressed political opinion are also troublesome. These assorted downsides of democratized speech are said to undermine the integrity of democratic processes and institutions. Public debate is distorted and coarsened and the electorate are misled. How ought the liberal democratic state respond to these challenges? The discussion is intended to be read by academics and researchers with interests in democratic theory, digital communications and freedom of expression. It offers a stimulating and distinctive contribution to debates about online speech."--
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538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 _aInternet
_xLaw and legislation.
650 0 _aFreedom of speech.
650 0 _aFreedom of information.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781509945863
856 4 0 _3Abstract with links to full text
_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781509945856?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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975 _aHart Publishing 2022
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