Watch What You Say: You May Be Violating the 'Speech Code'

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jean Marie Angelo: Watch What You Say: You May Be Violating the 'Speech Code', University Business September 30, 2005
I have spent much of my life in the centre of one controversy or another, and so this discussion of speech codes is one with which I have direct experience. In my own view, the line between aceptable speech and unacceptable speech is the one dividing the use of speech to express a belief and the use of speech to commit an act, where speech codes would apply to instances of the latter where the speech is being used to harass, threaten, embarass, intimidate or in some other way act in coercive or threatening behaviour. More...