Protecting and Promoting Dissent and Free Expression in the Digital Age

-- By ThomasHou? - 01 Dec 2011

"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. . . . We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. . . . [F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. . . . If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624 (1943).

Section I: The Continued Importance of Free Expression and Dissent

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Section II: New Threats to Free Expression and Dissent

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Section III: What Should Be Done

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