Chapter 12 Self-Quiz

. The First Amendment was devised as a shield against what kind of restraints on our basic rights?

. State colleges and universities are _______ the government and thus bound by the First Amendment.

. Forms of speech that can be censored or punished are referred to as

. For Mill, _______ is the only justified reason to limit the freedom of any member in a democratic community.

. In the context of the free speech debate, "trolls" are speakers who intend to

. According to Ben-Porath, curtailing free speech based on content or the presumed motivation of the speaker raises the risk of

. According to Stengel, what does hate speech diminish?

. Chemerinsky and Gillman point out that there is _______ that the presence of hate speech laws results in more tolerant attitudes.

. A private company is free to fire employees who espouse views at work that the company doesn't like.

. Over the last half century, the Supreme Court has affirmed again and again that speech may not be censored or punished just because it is disfavored, disturbing, or feared.

. Hate speech has a precise legal definition.

. Ben-Porath supports calls on college campuses to give "no platform" to speakers who may be seen by some as offensive.

. Stengel claims that the First Amendment should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another.

. Hate speech codes have been invalidated at public universities but not private universities.

. According to Chemerinsky and Gillman, there are many examples of codes that are both sufficiently specific and that apply only to unprotected speech.

. Chemerinsky and Gillman argue that speech codes are often used to punish people who were not their intended targets.

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