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+**Counterplan Text: The United States Federal Government should allow the United States to enter into full compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, or the ICCPR, including Article 20. That means public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for hate speech, defined according to Article 20 of the ICCPR.** |
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+**The counterplan solves the aff–it creates a precise test for balancing free speech with human dignity, which is key equality—reject the aff’s free speech absolutism.** |
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+Scott J. Catlin, Associate Vice President for Innovation and Technology Commercialization at the University of Rochester, Member of the Licensing Executives Society and American Intellectual Property Association, University of Rochester, University of Notre Dame Law School, “Proposal for Regulating Hate Speech in the United States: Balancing Rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 2014. |
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+...any solution to the hate speech problem. |
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+**And, the counterplan is key to full compliance to Article 20, which solves American hypocrisy and restores international human rights leadership.** |
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+Scott J. Catlin, Associate Vice President for Innovation and Technology Commercialization at the University of Rochester, Member of the Licensing Executives Society and American Intellectual Property Association, University of Rochester, University of Notre Dame Law School, “Proposal for Regulating Hate Speech in the United States: Balancing Rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 2014. |
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+C. United States Obligations Under the ICCPR... |
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+...from the rest of the world. 8 ' |