11. • 2018-05-29 – Roseanne Barr’s show is cancelled by ABC after she
makes racist comments on Twitter
• 2018-05-25 – Meet The Palo Alto Pastor Who Resigned After His
'Disgruntled, Beer-burping' Tweets Caused Community Outrage
• 2018-04-26 – Top prospect Josh Allen is snubbed by Cleveland and
falls to Buffalo with the seventh pick in the NFL Draft after admitting
to racist tweets from 2013 as the Browns take Heisman winner
Baker Mayfield first overall
• 2018-04-18 – 'I’m happy the witch is dead': Muslim Fresno State
professor sparks outrage as she celebrates the death of Barbara
Bush - calling her an 'amazing racist' who 'raised a war criminal’
• 2018-03-30 – Roseanne Barr is tweeting about QAnon, a new
Pizzagate-style conspiracy theory
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13. • Athens and Rome (~500 B.C.E.)
• England Bill of Rights (1689)
• French Declaration of Rights (1789)
• First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution (1791)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948)
• Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms (1982)
Origins of “Free Speech”
14. • “Free” As In Unrestricted
• “Free” As In Unimpeded
• “Free” As In Without
Cost
• “Free” As In Without
Consequences
Defining “Free”
15. A Hard Truth
“Freedom’s Just Another
Word for Nothing Left to
Lose.”
-- Janis Joplin
“Me and Bobby McGee” (1971)
20. U.S. Cellphone Use
• Estimated 306 million cellphone
users in United States (95%)
• Among 18-29 yos: 100%
• Roughly 92% of Teens Use a
Cellphone
• At Least 75% of Teens Use a
Smartphone
• “Smaller, Faster, Cheaper”
21. The Tech Generations
• Millennials (1980/83 – 1997/2000)
• ~ 75 million people
• 50% of work force by 2020
• “Gen Z” (1998/2000 – present)
• ~ 69 million people
• Online at least 1 hour per day
• Nearly half online > 10 hours per day
• “Gen α” ??
24. • Public vs. Private Employees
• Union/Labor Protection
• The Shrinking Concept of
Personal Time
• Public vs. Private Statements
• Protecting the Brand
• Role Models IRL & Online
Blurring Lines
25. • 2018-05-23 -- Former Minnesota Teacher of the Year
Removed from Licensing Board Over Trump Comments
• 2018-04-19 -- Taylor Co. Schools superintendent
investigating teacher's alleged racist Facebook post
• 2018-03-05 -- Florida school removes teacher who
hosted white nationalist podcast
• 2018-02-13 -- Gay teacher 'fired after wedding photos
were shared online'
• 2018-01-08 -- Substitute Teacher Fired After Private High
School Discovers He Works for Richard Spencer’s White
Supremacist Think Tank
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27. • If a Service Has “Privacy
Settings,” It’s Not Private
• “Information Wants to Be Free”
• The Delete Key Is a Myth
• Digital Stupidity Is Durable
• Post Unto Others as You Would
Have Them Post Unto You
21st-Century Maxims to Live By