Freedom of Speech in the United States, 8th edition

This award-winning textbook explores the evolution of our present-day free speech rights through major legislation and Supreme Court decisions. Guiding readers to an understanding of complex concepts with clear explanations, brief abstracts of major court cases, and numerous study aids, it shows how historical challenges to freedom of speech arise anew with the emergence of new technologies, political issues, and social concerns. Thoroughly updated, the eighth edition integrates recent laws, regulations, and court cases, showing how historical issues, such as sedition, prior restraint, defamation, and obscenity, shape contemporary concerns such as access to government information, Net neutrality, Internet Service Providers liability, streaming video and copyright, privacy and defamation in social media, reporters privilege, student speech rights on and off campus, and national boundaries in the Internet age.