In 2014, the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan grabbed international attention as citizen protesters demanded the Taiwan government withdraw its free-trade agreement with China. In that same year, in Hong ...Kong, the Umbrella Movement sustained 79 days of demonstrations, protests that demanded genuine universal suffrage in electing Hong Kong's chief executive. It too, became an international incident before it collapsed. Both of these student-led movements featured large-scale and intense participation and had deep and far- reaching consequences. But how did two massive and disruptive protests take place in culturally conservative societies? And how did the two "occupy"-style protests against Chinese influences on local politics arrive at such strikingly divergent results? Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven aims to make sense of the origins, processes, and outcomes of these eventful protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Ming-sho Ho compares the dynamics of the two movements, from the existing networks of activists that preceded protest, to the perceived threats that ignited the movements, to the government strategies with which they contended, and to the nature of their coordination. Moreover, he contextualizes these protests in a period of global prominence for student, occupy, and anti- globalization protests and situates them within social movement studies.
Dinar Candy expressed her feeling to PPKM by wearing bikini in the roadside which caused her be stipulated as the suspect of phornography. Dinar Candy’s case brought to the thoughts on the limitation ...of pornography meaning and the determination on freedom of expression in action of wearing bikini. The research is conducted through a qualitative approach using secondary data. The results show, first: phornograph is limited by ‘subjective reason’ such as if the phornography is aimed for personal interest, then the action is not phornography. The other is ‘action-room limitation’ in which an action can be formulated as phornography if the standard and characteristic in the room where the action is done consideres that the action is obscene or aims to sexual exploitation. The room refers to specific place such as beach, roadside, hotel, or other specific places, not wide social room. Second: If someone’s feeling is expressed by wearing bikini in a room which based on its decency standard allows to wear bikini, then the action can be determined as freedom of expression. In contrary, in a room where bikini is considered against morality, or it is spread to public, then such action is againsting the phornogrphy law.How to cite item: Donandi S, S. (2022). Dinar Candy, pornography, freedom of expression, and the law. Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum, 13(2). 202-213. doi:10.26905/idjch.v13i2.6517.
Hugh M. Hefner's legacy of enduring free speech and free press values is embodied in the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards, established in 1979, which honor leading First Amendment scholars and ...advocates. Hefner also had a lifelong interest in film censorship issues and supported teaching about them at the University of Southern California for 20 years. His deep commitment to these values was confirmed when the author was granted unrestricted access to over 3,000 personal scrapbooks, which Hefner had kept in order to track free speech and press issues during his lifetime. The format of the book is an homage to the in-depth conversational interviews Hefner pioneered as the editor and publisher of Playboy magazine. Stuart Brotman conducted in-person conversations with eight persons who in their lifetimes have come to represent a "greatest generation" of free speech and free press scholars and advocates. Notably, these conversations include:Geoffrey R. StoneFloyd AbramsNadine StrossenBurt NeuborneDavid D. ColeLucy A. DalglishBob Corn-RevereRick Jewell
In a MetroPOLL survey conducted in July 2020, 62 percent of Turkish respondents asserted that the media in Turkey lacks freedom, while 50 percent felt inhibited in freely expressing their thoughts on ...social media due to perceived monitoring and the potential ramifications of their actions. In response to criticism, the government often resorts to accusing critics of terrorist affiliations, posing a threat to the state, or engaging in activities jeopardizing national security. Publicly criticizing the state or government in Turkey carries inherent risks, including facing civil lawsuits, criminal charges, or investigations. Individuals who opt to publish or speak on sensitive subjects or criticize the government may undergo scrutiny, punishment, and legal prosecution, with potential consequences such as job loss and imprisonment. Legal proceedings against those expressing critical opinions have multifaceted negative implications for society, influencing perceptions of freedom of expression and serving as a means to intimidate civil society and stifle dissent. This study focuses on elucidating the primary reasons behind these restrictions and examining prevalent instances of legal action. Moreover, precision in language, avoidance of redundancy, cohesive transitions, quantifying information with specific examples, and the use of neutral language have been employed to enhance the academic tone and clarity of the paragraph.
Recently, in 'Burns v. Town of Palm Beach', the Eleventh Circuit addressed whether the First Amendment protects residential architecture from aesthetic regulation. Though the court declined to extend ...First Amendment coverage to the plaintiff’s proposed home, both the majority and the dissent relied on expressive conduct doctrine to evaluate the architectural expression claim. Expressive conduct, however, is poor fit for architecture, and future courts should either develop a standard tailored to architecture’s unique character or decline to extend First Amendment coverage
This work analyzes the conflict which the right to freedom of expression (guaranteed in a broad way in the American Convention on Human Rights Pact of San Jose, Costa Rica and characterized as a ...personality right which allows the person's full development) presents for the Brazilian Penal code as it relates to crimes of contempt. It reflects on the incompatibility of contempt crimes with the right to freedom of expression and thought, focusing for this purpose on the authorities of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights positions on the subject. It addresses the problem of the effectiveness of the right to freedom of expression in Brazil, through the exercise of jurisdiction by the legitimate state office through the conventionality control. By using hypothetical-deductive reasoning through documentary doctrinal and jurisprudential descriptive and exploratory research, the article concludes that the Brazilian (Superior Court Justice and Federal Supreme Court), the recent decisions taken on the grounds of unconventionality by the diffuse control, design the scenario maintaining the criminal type of contempt and allowing for the possibility of future condemnation of Brazil by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Keywords: Freedom of expression; contempt; Personality rights; conventionality control; effectiveness. O presente trabalho analisa o conflito do direito a liberdade de expressao garantido de forma ampla na Convencao Americana sobre Direitos Humanos (Pacto de San Jose da Costa Rica) e caracterizado como direito da personalidade que possibilita o pleno desenvolvimento da pessoa, frente a tipificacao do crime de desacato previsto no Codigo Penal brasileiro. Objetiva, assim, refletir sobre a incompatibilidade dos delitos de desacato com o direito a liberdade de expressao e pensamento, analisando, para tanto, o posicionamento dos orgaos do Sistema Interamericano de Protecao dos Direitos Humanos sobre o tema. Como problema, questiona-se a efetivacao do direito a liberdade de expressao no Brasil, por meio do exercicio da jurisdicao pelos orgaos estatais competentes, via controle de convencionalidade. Ao se valer de raciocinio hipotetico-dedutivo, por meio de pesquisa documental, doutrinaria e jurisprudencial, descritiva e exploratoria, o artigo conclui que nas Cortes superiores brasileiras (Superior Tribunal de Justica e Supremo Tribunal Federal), as recentes decisoes tomadas via alegacao de inconvencionalidade pelo controle difuso, desenham o cenario de manutencao do tipo penal do desacato, ensejando a possibilidade de futura condenacao do Brasil pela Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. Palavras-chave: Liberdade de expressao; Desacato; Direitos da personalidade; controle de convencionalidade; efetividade.
This work analyzes the conflict which the right to freedom of expression (guaranteed in a broad way in the American Convention on Human Rights Pact of San Jose, Costa Rica and characterized as a ...personality right which allows the person's full development) presents for the Brazilian Penal code as it relates to crimes of contempt. It reflects on the incompatibility of contempt crimes with the right to freedom of expression and thought, focusing for this purpose on the authorities of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights positions on the subject. It addresses the problem of the effectiveness of the right to freedom of expression in Brazil, through the exercise of jurisdiction by the legitimate state office through the conventionality control. By using hypothetical-deductive reasoning through documentary doctrinal and jurisprudential descriptive and exploratory research, the article concludes that the Brazilian (Superior Court Justice and Federal Supreme Court), the recent decisions taken on the grounds of unconventionality by the diffuse control, design the scenario maintaining the criminal type of contempt and allowing for the possibility of future condemnation of Brazil by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
