SCS 1150 Lecture 2: SCS1150 Lecture 2 - Free Speech

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1150
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

Document Summary

3 conditions for free speech to be relevant. You have to have the liberty to communicate, includes the production and distribution of your ideas: ex: signs, facebook/blogs/social medias, you want to express your personal thoughts and views and have the liberty to do it. The audience must be able to comprehend your ideas: when speakers are shouted down or their signs are torn apart, this is not free speech. Free speech and hate speech is all legal and absolute according to muscular. They don"t think the government should be telling you where the line is between o ensive speech and hate speech. You believe in are speech to counter hate speech and you believe that individuals should be self governing agents and make their own decisions and you shouldn"t be making them for them. Muscular liberals forget that we should be talking about the substance of the speech. Free speech with limits on hate speech is legal.