♦ nivek ♦ Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 "Censorship is contagious, and experience with this culture of regulation teaches us that regulatory enthusiasts herald each new medium of communications as another opportunity to spread the disease." -- Robert Corn-Revere Source: Rationales and Rationalizations: Regulating the Electronic Media, 1997 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Corn-Revere.Quote.38E8 "Describing an action or an event as the “consequence” of speech presupposes that there is some causal connection between them. A central issue in any debate about the limits of free speech is the nature and the imminence of the causal connection between speech and its alleged consequences…. In actual social situations it is impossible to isolate factors and determine their contribution to effects. Such control is extremely complicated even in a scientific laboratory." -- Ruth Gavison Source: "Incitement and the Limits of the Law," in Censorship and Silencing (Robert C. Post, ed) 1998 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ruth.Gavison.Quote.401C "Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Source: Speech, House of Commons, 1943 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Winston.Churchill.Quote.38C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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