Yttrandefrihetens gränser : En prövning utifrån tre fall och tre teoretiker

• Main Author: Jansson, Ann
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) 2015
• Subjects: freedom of speech; free speech; freedom; freedom of thought; democracy
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-43807

Freedom of speech has been a well discussed subject. Great philosophers and theoretics like Plato, Voltaire, Locke and Mill have again and again showed the importance of freedom of speech. Since the world have become bystanders to a series of events that can only classify as crimes aganst freedom of speech, it has become more important to study the phenomenon and analyse it. By finding cases where the freedom of speech has been compromised and analyse them in frames of three different theories, the argument of truth, the argument of democracy and the argument of tolerance, this paper makes the boundaries of freedom of speech a little clearer, and also makes a discussion about how reasonable the boundaries are possible. Everything according to the three theories.