Tag Archives | Free Speech

Loud Controversy Over Japanese SpeechJammer Gun

By on March 7, 2012 in Culture, Future Tech
A view of the prototype speech jammer gun.

Websites everywhere are voicing issues over a new electronic gun designed by Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University in Japan. The SpeechJammer records the speech of targeted individuals and blasts their own voice back at them with a .2 second delay. This results […]

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Free Speech In The Internet Age: Fact Or Fantasy?

By on December 1, 2011 in Culture, Odds And Ends, Social Media
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Topeka, Kansas high school senior Emma Sullivan found herself in uncharted territory last week when she posted a tweet to her fifty-odd followers during a visit from Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to her school. “Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person,” she tweeted, adding, “#heblowsalot.” The governor’s communications […]

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