Countdown to break Only 1 more weeks

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Countdown to break Only 1 ½ more weeks!

• Wednesday
• Regulating hate speech
• Do words wound?
• Friday NO LAB SESSIONS!
• Be sure to pick up your essay draft on Friday (9
  am until 430 pm) from the Dept. of Communication
  main office (115 Switzler Hall)

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Communication Controversy O the Day Report

Team Whalebone Katie Blair Lisa
Daubenspeck Spencer Hamilton Noelle Morris
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Moving On . . . Whos Up Next?

• Capital Edge
• Bryan Barrios
• Sarah Bryant
• Clarence Hayes
• Tiffany Hines
• Camille Weston

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Generic Ballot

• A. YES / Agree
• B. NO / Disagree

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Content-Neutral Speech Restrictions (e)

• Restrictions cannot be based on the specific
  viewpoints contained in the content of the speech.

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Free to Protest

• YES, allow protesters at funerals
• 12
• NO, dont allow protesters at funerals
• 88

• YES, allow protesters at abortion clinics
• 57
• NO, dont allow protesters at abortion clinics
• 43

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Marketplace of Ideas Test ILet him speak with
your money?

• YES,
• 52
• NO,
• 48

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Q The Ben Smith / Matt Hale Case

• The town (any town) should ban individuals from
  distributing racist materials (e.g. leaving
  fliers on cars in parking lots, distributing in
  driveways, etc.)
• 72 YES, restrict this activity
• 28 NO, cant restrict this activity

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Q The Ben Smith / Matt Hale Case

• Some authority (the government, Internet service
  providers, or perhaps even search engines such
  as Google) should STOP (somehow block or filter)
  the posting of hate web sites.
• YES 54
• NO 46

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Marketplace of Ideas TestHATE on the Net . . .

• The Internets at fault?
• Ben Smith Rev. Matt Hale
• Minnesota school shooting last year
• Solutions?
• Cant STOP the Net
• A TRUE free marketplace of ideas?
• Let NO ONE speak to stop objectionable speech?
• Peoria, IL public TV
• David Duke campus lecture case
• Pay for it yourself?

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The consequences of limiting expression of
intolerable views?
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Do words hurt?

• What to do with wordsand expressionsthat offend
  . . . That are intended to hurt or wound
  another person?
• Do words hurt?
• Should certain words, phrases, expressions be
  banned or policed, sanctioned or fined?

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Get AIDS and die faggot!Im not racist. I
think everyone should own a black.

• A. University should do nothing to this student
  for this expression.
• B. University should somehow sanction this
  student (short of expelling) such as require a
  diversity training class, etc.
• C. University should expel this student from
  campus / enrollment.