Democracy off Balance : Freedom of Expression and Hate Propaganda Law in Canada.
Braun, Stefan.
Democracy off Balance : Freedom of Expression and Hate Propaganda Law in Canada. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (397 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Foundations of the Imbalance -- I: The Malady and the Prevention: A Brief Historical Perspective -- II: The Political and Intellectual Slide: From Open Bigotry to Subconscious Prejudice to Structural Discrimination - from National Survival to Social Transformation -- III: The Juridical Slide: From a Right of Expression to a Question of Content - the Evolution of Asymmetry in Judicial Balancing -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Functions and Assumptions of Freedom of Expression -- I: Participation, Self-determination, and Self-government -- II: Enlightened Publics, Honest Politics, Accountable Politicians, and Self-government -- 1 Enlightened Participation and Social Division -- 2 Meaningful Public Discourse, Social Truth, and Social Division -- 3 Multiplicity of Public Truth and Social Division -- 4 Honest Politicians, Accountable Politics, Public Division -- III: Adaptation, Change, and Enduring Self-government -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Functions and Assumptions of Hate Propaganda Law -- I: Peace and Order: Victim Retaliation and Disturbance to Public Order -- II: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Hate-Induced Self-exclusion, Self-withdrawal, Negative Participation, and Assimilation -- III: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Societal Exclusion - Visible and Invisible -- 1 Visible Exclusion -- 2 Invisible Exclusion -- IV: Social Disintegration and Political Conflagration: The 'Mushroom' Thesis -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: The Political Dilemma, Part I: Legally Definable and Politically Defensible Hate Censorship -- I: Unwrapping the Politics of Content: What Is Hate Propaganda and How Do You Fix It? -- II: Unwrapping the Politics of Victimhood: Absolute Victims and Absolute Victimizers. III: Unwrapping the Politics of Fixing Social Right: Trusted Censorship and Trustworthy Censors -- 1 Competence -- 2 Chilling Effects -- 3 Accountability -- 4 Conflict of Interest -- 5 Fixability -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Political Dilemma, Part II: The 'Slippery Slope' -- I: The Drive to Slide -- 1 Rival Groups and the Conduct of Silencing -- 2 Censors and Self-justification -- 3 The Public, the Politician, and the Paradox -- 4 The Public, the Politician, and the Hatemonger -- II: Changing Course: The Political Dynamics of Self-correction and the Legacies of Censorship's Slide -- 1 The Political Dynamics of Self-correction -- 2 Political Backlash and Its Legacies -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: The Pragmatic Dilemma: Hate Censorship That 'Works' -- I: How Prosecution Misappropriates Discursive Public Conflict and Misshapes Public Perceptions to the Detriment of the Cause of Repression -- II: Effective and Successful Censorship? Mutual Exclusivity and the Four False 'Faults' -- 1 Trial -- 2 Media Coverage -- 3 Opponents and Technology -- 4 Coverage or Targeting -- III: Effectiveness and Success: The Dilemma of the Moving Target - the 'Slippery Slope' Revisited -- IV: Differential Censorial Impact: The Final Blow -- 1 The Shield: Subjective Audience Impact -- 2 The Sword: Subjective Speaker Impact -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven: The Jurisprudential Dilemma: The Exceptions Defence and Democratic Justification -- I: Manner and Form Regulation -- II: False Alarms (Pranksterism) and Fighting Words -- III: Defamation of Public Officials (Libel and Slander) -- IV: Obscenity -- V: Group Defamation and Seditious Libel -- 1 Group Defamation: Beauharnais v. People of the State of Illinois -- 2 Seditious Libel: Boucher v. The King -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight: Alternative Juridical Balances and Balancing Juridical Alternatives. I: Suppression of Hatred against Identifiable Groups Expressed through False Facts on Matters of Society, History, or Governance -- II: Suppression of the Promotion of Hatred against Identifiable Groups -- III: Suppression of Incitement to Illegal Acts of Hatred against Identifiable Groups Likely to Produce Such Illegal Acts -- IV: Temporary Suppression of Expressions of Hatred in Extraordinary Conditions of Grave and Irreparable Harm -- Chapter Nine: Alternative Measures: Towards a Less Self-intrusive Balance -- I: Progress and Prognosis: Alternatives to Legal Silencing Revisited -- 1 The Work of Alternatives in Canadian History -- 2 Uses and Abuses of History: Missing and Mispackaging the Evidence -- II: The Case for Alternatives -- 1 Punishment and Command Alternatives -- 2 Discursive Alternatives -- 3 Mixed Discursive Alternatives -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Democracy Off Balanceoffers an unsettling analysis of hate censorship and hate censors as a complex paradox of modern democratic discourse.
9781442673809
Freedom of expression-Canada.
Freedom of speech-Canada.
Hate speech-Canada.
Electronic books.
KE4418 / .B738 2004
323.44/3/0971
Democracy off Balance : Freedom of Expression and Hate Propaganda Law in Canada. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (397 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Foundations of the Imbalance -- I: The Malady and the Prevention: A Brief Historical Perspective -- II: The Political and Intellectual Slide: From Open Bigotry to Subconscious Prejudice to Structural Discrimination - from National Survival to Social Transformation -- III: The Juridical Slide: From a Right of Expression to a Question of Content - the Evolution of Asymmetry in Judicial Balancing -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Functions and Assumptions of Freedom of Expression -- I: Participation, Self-determination, and Self-government -- II: Enlightened Publics, Honest Politics, Accountable Politicians, and Self-government -- 1 Enlightened Participation and Social Division -- 2 Meaningful Public Discourse, Social Truth, and Social Division -- 3 Multiplicity of Public Truth and Social Division -- 4 Honest Politicians, Accountable Politics, Public Division -- III: Adaptation, Change, and Enduring Self-government -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Functions and Assumptions of Hate Propaganda Law -- I: Peace and Order: Victim Retaliation and Disturbance to Public Order -- II: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Hate-Induced Self-exclusion, Self-withdrawal, Negative Participation, and Assimilation -- III: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Societal Exclusion - Visible and Invisible -- 1 Visible Exclusion -- 2 Invisible Exclusion -- IV: Social Disintegration and Political Conflagration: The 'Mushroom' Thesis -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: The Political Dilemma, Part I: Legally Definable and Politically Defensible Hate Censorship -- I: Unwrapping the Politics of Content: What Is Hate Propaganda and How Do You Fix It? -- II: Unwrapping the Politics of Victimhood: Absolute Victims and Absolute Victimizers. III: Unwrapping the Politics of Fixing Social Right: Trusted Censorship and Trustworthy Censors -- 1 Competence -- 2 Chilling Effects -- 3 Accountability -- 4 Conflict of Interest -- 5 Fixability -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Political Dilemma, Part II: The 'Slippery Slope' -- I: The Drive to Slide -- 1 Rival Groups and the Conduct of Silencing -- 2 Censors and Self-justification -- 3 The Public, the Politician, and the Paradox -- 4 The Public, the Politician, and the Hatemonger -- II: Changing Course: The Political Dynamics of Self-correction and the Legacies of Censorship's Slide -- 1 The Political Dynamics of Self-correction -- 2 Political Backlash and Its Legacies -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: The Pragmatic Dilemma: Hate Censorship That 'Works' -- I: How Prosecution Misappropriates Discursive Public Conflict and Misshapes Public Perceptions to the Detriment of the Cause of Repression -- II: Effective and Successful Censorship? Mutual Exclusivity and the Four False 'Faults' -- 1 Trial -- 2 Media Coverage -- 3 Opponents and Technology -- 4 Coverage or Targeting -- III: Effectiveness and Success: The Dilemma of the Moving Target - the 'Slippery Slope' Revisited -- IV: Differential Censorial Impact: The Final Blow -- 1 The Shield: Subjective Audience Impact -- 2 The Sword: Subjective Speaker Impact -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven: The Jurisprudential Dilemma: The Exceptions Defence and Democratic Justification -- I: Manner and Form Regulation -- II: False Alarms (Pranksterism) and Fighting Words -- III: Defamation of Public Officials (Libel and Slander) -- IV: Obscenity -- V: Group Defamation and Seditious Libel -- 1 Group Defamation: Beauharnais v. People of the State of Illinois -- 2 Seditious Libel: Boucher v. The King -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight: Alternative Juridical Balances and Balancing Juridical Alternatives. I: Suppression of Hatred against Identifiable Groups Expressed through False Facts on Matters of Society, History, or Governance -- II: Suppression of the Promotion of Hatred against Identifiable Groups -- III: Suppression of Incitement to Illegal Acts of Hatred against Identifiable Groups Likely to Produce Such Illegal Acts -- IV: Temporary Suppression of Expressions of Hatred in Extraordinary Conditions of Grave and Irreparable Harm -- Chapter Nine: Alternative Measures: Towards a Less Self-intrusive Balance -- I: Progress and Prognosis: Alternatives to Legal Silencing Revisited -- 1 The Work of Alternatives in Canadian History -- 2 Uses and Abuses of History: Missing and Mispackaging the Evidence -- II: The Case for Alternatives -- 1 Punishment and Command Alternatives -- 2 Discursive Alternatives -- 3 Mixed Discursive Alternatives -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Democracy Off Balanceoffers an unsettling analysis of hate censorship and hate censors as a complex paradox of modern democratic discourse.
9781442673809
Freedom of expression-Canada.
Freedom of speech-Canada.
Hate speech-Canada.
Electronic books.
KE4418 / .B738 2004
323.44/3/0971