No-platforming and Safe Spaces
Should Universities Censor more (or less) Speech than the Law Requires
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6162945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Heinze (0000-0002-0471-4954, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 79-108 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politička misao (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1846-8721 • E-ISSN: 0032-3241 |
| Publisher | Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia (PUBLISHER • HR) |
| DOI | 10.20901/pm.55.4.04 |
| OpenAlex | W3125442713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
How should higher education respond to legally mandated limits on hateful, discriminatory, or provocative speech?Should public universities fortify government rules in the name of equal dignity for vulnerable groups, by imposing even further restrictions of their own?Or should they oppose such restrictions in the name of free speech?Or should they do neither, seeking neither amplification nor repeal, instead simply joining in whatever the government status quo happens to be, as they would do with most other background legal rules?This article advocates the second position: through a brief examination of "no-platforming" and "safe space" policies, it is argued that, within fullyfledged democracies, viewpoint-selective censorship is always indefensible for higher education.Examples are drawn from high-profile controversies involving far-right speakers as well as pro-and anti-Israel speech
Business · Censorship · Dignity · Free speech · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Political science · Position (finance · Repeal · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Status quo · Academic Freedom and Politics · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |