Protezione dell'"hate speech" e tutela dell'espressione avente rilevanza pubblica negli Stati Uniti d'America: il caso "Snyder vs. Phelps"

• Autores: Elettra Stradella
• Localización: Studi parlamentari e di politica costituzionale, ISSN 0303-9714, Nº. 173-174, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Studi in onore di Nicola Greco – Volume 2), págs. 215-230
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Protection of hate speech and speech in the public interest in the United States: the case Snyder vs. Phelps
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• Resumen

  • This paper aims at investigating the recent trends of North-American case-law with regard to the protection of speech in the public interest, starting from Supreme Court’s Snyder vs. Phelps. In this case the opinion of the Court was in favour of the protection of speech in the public interest, even when it may cause offense to the majority of its intended audience.

    Snyder vs. Phelps raises many questions.

    Among them the paper focuses on these main topics: the limitations of hate speech and their constitutionality in the context of First Amendment law; the nature of these limitations, discussing if they should be general and grounded on an axiological system of values or concretized in specific cases of protection of honour and reputation; the relationship between direct and indirect regulations of the freedom of expression.