Stand Up for Free Speech

摘要

Efforts in Congress and by the FCC to rein in "indecent" TV programming are challenging free-speech advocates as never before. Given that there aren't many free-speech defenders, this would be quite bad enough even if the advocates controlled the terms of debate. Unfortunately, they do not. In part because of the lack of a shared view of what it means to be an advocate, free-speech rhetoric fails to persuade in ways that it could.