Free Speech in the Age of YouTube Discussion
Humanities
Discussion 4.1: Week 4: Recent controversies in Free Speech
Answer ONE of the following questions that has not been answered by a previous poster, unless they have all been answered once already. Also post a paragraph response to one of the other postings by your classmates. Make clear which comment you are responding to. You may agree, disagree, ask a question, or try to come up with a transition connecting two of the ideas in different postings. Please post by Thurs. 2/21 at midnight.
Choice 1. Type a three paragraph response to “Under Attack” . In the first paragraph, summarize this article from The Economist. For the second and third paragraph, identify two opposing views suggested by the article (the economist editors’ and the opposing view), and give reasons that could be used to support each view.
Choice 2. Type a three paragraph response to “Free Speech in the Age of YouTube” . In the first paragraph, summarize this article from The New York Times. For the second and third paragraph, identify two opposing views suggested by the article, and give reasons that could be used to support each view.
Choice 3. Type a three paragraph response to “The Free Speech–Hate Speech Trade-Off” . In the first paragraph, summarize this opinion from The New York Times. For the second and third paragraph, identify two opposing views suggested by the article, and give reasons that could be used to support each view.
Choice 4. Are there any controversies regarding free speech you have heard about lately? Summarize, give 2 opposing views, and your own opinion.
Choice 5: For your thesis statement for Essay 1, try writing a one-story, a two-story, and a three-story thesis statement. How do the three statements differ?
Choice 6: Explain what a claim is, how one of the authors uses it, and how you might use it.
Choice 7: Explain what grounds are, how one of the authors uses them, and how you might use them.
Choice 8: Explain what warrants are, how one of the authors uses them, and how you might use them.
Choice 9: Explain what backing is, how one of the authors uses it, and how you might use it.
Choice 10: Explain what modal qualifiers are, how one of the authors uses them, and how you might use them.
Choice 11: Explain what rebuttals are, how one of the authors uses them, and how you might use them.
