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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: "Regents reject hate speech rule"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.034753.14675@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <wi-regentsU2DB450pc@clarinet.com> <Bz4JxF.CHw@cs.uiuc.edu> <v-h2c_#@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:47:53 GMT
- Lines: 99
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- According to a UPI article in clari.news.issues:
-
- > "The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents rejected a controversial
- >UW hate speech rule Friday.
- [...]
-
- >And is this supposed to be a good thing???
- [...]
-
- It's good thing because bigots will no longer be free-speech martyrs.
- They will now defend their view in public, where I'm hopeful that the
- truth, not they will prevail. It is also a good thing because it takes
- away the University's power to define some student speech as "hate
- speech" and then punish it.
-
- - Carl
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- academic/speech-codes.aaup
- =================
- * Speech Codes (AAUP)
-
- On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes Expression - An
- official statement of the American Association of University
- Professors (AAUP)
-
- It says in part: "On a campus that is free and open, no idea can be
- banned or forbidden. No viewpoint or message may be deemed so hateful
- or disturbing that it may not be expressed."
-
- =================
- news/cafv02n10: Message-Id: <1992Feb26.165417.12215@eff.org>
- =================
- An article from the Computers and Academic Freedom News 02.10
-
- Note 1 concerns the limits a university may place on free speech.
-
- 1. According to a short item in the Chicago Tribune, some at the
- University of Wisconsin want to draft new, narrower "hate speech" rule
- to replace the rule that was struck down by the district federal
- court. The author of the original restrictions says that he isn't sure
- the rule is needed anymore.
-
- =================
- law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
- =================
- * Expression -- Hate Speech -- UWM Post v. U Of Wisconsin
-
- The full text of UWM POST v. U. of Wisconsin. This recent district
- court ruling goes into detail about the difference between protected
- offensive expression and illegal harassment. It even mentions email.
-
- It concludes: "The founding fathers of this nation produced a
- remarkable document in the Constitution but it was ratified only with
- the promise of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment is central to
- our concept of freedom. The God-given "unalienable rights" that the
- infant nation rallied to in the Declaration of Independence can be
- preserved only if their application is rigorously analyzed.
-
- The problems of bigotry and discrimination sought to be addressed here
- are real and truly corrosive of the educational environment. But
- freedom of speech is almost absolute in our land and the only
- restriction the fighting words doctrine can abide is that based on the
- fear of violent reaction. Content-based prohibitions such as that in
- the UW Rule, however well intended, simply cannot survive the
- screening which our Constitution demands."
-
- =================
- =================
-
- If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
- gopher gopher.eff.org
-
- These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/academic/speech-codes.aaup
- pub/academic/news/cafv02n10
- pub/academic/law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom/academic speech-codes.aaup
- send acad-freedom/news cafv02n10
- send acad-freedom/law uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
-
-
-
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-