MEDIAST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pus, Copyright Infringement, Lawrence Lessig
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Ways for citizens to place their concerns on the public agenda. 1. are exposed to a diversity of idea. 2. can easily exchange idea with each other. Four regulation (lessig: norms (social pressures, market (cost, variety, access, etc, technology (construction constrains) 1. it is hard to be an anonymous on social media: laws (threat of punishment, copy right, cyber bullying. And: these must be considered together since they all impact each other. Protest against government censorship (not editorial controls) It"s the public"s job not the government to decide what"s a good idea. Because: ideas should circulate in a marketplace of competing ideas. And: courts have expanded free press to include all type of mass media. Unprotected speech: clear and present danger = speech that would cause immediate social harm, libel: defamation of character in written or broadcast form, private individual must show:
