At the start of the 20th century, there was virtually no free
speech doctrine. The jurisprudence of the First Amendment
developed through World War I, the red scares, McCarthyism, and
Vietnam into what we have today: an imperfect, still developing,
but cohesive model that remains the global standard (excepting a
few high profile areas, like hate speech).More. Saturday,
January 16, 2010 Stone on Free Speech in the Twentieth Century
Posted by Dan Ernst Over at the University of Chicago Law
Faculty Blog, the veteran student blogger David Schraub has a
summary of the presentation to Chicago's Works in Progress
seminar by Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished
Service Professor and the author of Perilous Times: Free Speech
in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism
(W.W. Norton, 2004). According to Mr. Schraub, in his
presentation, entitled Free Speech in the Twenty-First Century:
Ten Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Professor Stone argued: