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2014

Brian Christopher Jones

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Is Social Media A Human Right? Exploring The Scope Of Internet Rights, Brian Christopher Jones Nov 2014

Is Social Media A Human Right? Exploring The Scope Of Internet Rights, Brian Christopher Jones

Brian Christopher Jones

This article explores the basis for social media being recognised as a human right, how such services have come to be seen as both democracy-enabing and rights-infringing, and further examines social media's contentious relationship with authoritarian regimes.

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Interpreting Acronyms And Epithets: Examining The Jurisprudential Significance (Or Lack Thereof), Brian Christopher Jones Feb 2014

Interpreting Acronyms And Epithets: Examining The Jurisprudential Significance (Or Lack Thereof), Brian Christopher Jones

Brian Christopher Jones

Given the rise in short title sophistication and their prominent use as evidence in U.S. v. Windsor, this essay argues that acronym short titles are a relatively unexplored interpretive phenomenon. Examining how acronyms should be approached in jurisprudence, the essay further explains how many titles are designed around a symbolic epithet, thus calling into question the interpretative value of such titles. Additionally, the essay touches on the recent NY and D.C. decisions regarding the NSA’s bulk telephony metadata collection system, and how the USA PATRIOT acronym may have played a symbolic (psycholinguistic) role.

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