JOUR 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 73: Snow Crash, Cultural Memory, Prior Restraint
19 Aug 2020
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Whether it"s by the government or other private actors, deleting and/or destructing records/creative works causes a lot of free expression problems for: A lot of science fiction artists talk about the dangerous speech that should be legally prevented, such as speech that directly and immediately causes public harm. Weaponized speech, for example, is specifically designed to target harm to anyone who sees, reads, hears, or anything else that might cause a lot of consequences. It is something that is often seen in science diction writing and represents speech so dangerous it can be deadly. Deadly speech might go beyond words and films. There are weaponized speech that falls into unprotected speech under the first amendment. An example of this comes in snow crash where a virus contained a killer code that could alter brains and human bodies creating civilization in your biological structure. This biological code, if hacked, could be deadly to civilizations.
