Free speech after 9/11

✍ Scribed by Gelber, Katharine

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines and compares the changes in the appropriate parameters of freedom of speech in the counter-terrorism context since 9/11, focusing on the US, UK, and Australia.

Abstract:

This volume examines and compares the changes in the appropriate parameters of freedom of speech in the counter-terrorism context since 9/11, focusing on the US, UK, and Australia. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Free Speech after 9/11
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
1: Reconstructing Freedom of Speech
The 9/11 reconstruction
Notes
2: Free Speech before 9/11
Freedom of speech as a principle mediated by institutions
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia
Freedom of Speech Pre-9/11
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Notes
3: Justifying the Response
Common themes
War
New Paradigm
Nature of the Threat
Policy Response: Prevention and Pushing the Limits
Public Attitudes: Need for Change. Key Responsibility of Government: Ensuring Public SafetyHierarchical Relationship between Security and Liberty
Whose Rights Deserve Protection?
Differentiated themes
Responses to Accusations that Governments Were Breaching Civil Liberties
Conceptualizations of Liberty
How People Assist ́Terrorism<br> Conclusion<br> Notes<br> 4: Criminalizing Terrorism<br> Counter-terrorism lawmaking<br> United States<br> United Kingdom<br> Australia<br> Defining terrorism<br> Conclusion<br> Notes<br> 5:Assisting ́Terrorism
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Conclusion
Notes
6: Silencing Detainees
United States. Communicative Restrictions on DetaineesSecrecy of Hearings
United Kingdom
Preventive Detention
Communicative Restrictions
Pre-Charge Detention
Australia
Communicative Restrictions
Conclusion
Notes
7: Chilling Speech
Gag orders
United States: National Security Letters
United States: Section 215 Orders
Australia: Preventative Detention Orders, and Questioning and Detention Warrants
Mass surveillance
Conclusion
Notes
8: The New Normal
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

✦ Subjects

Great Britain;Human Rights Act 1998;Human Rights Act 1998 (Great Britain);Freedom of speech;United States;Freedom of speech;Great Britain;Freedom of speech;Australia;Terrorism;Prevention;September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001;Influence;Race relations;Sedition;Law and legislation;POLITICAL SCIENCE;Political Freedom & Security;Civil Rights;POLITICAL SCIENCE;Political Freedom & Security;Human Rights;Freedom of speech;Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.);Australia;Great Britain;United States