The questions below are key questions that this symposium wishes to address.

• How do individuals, special interest groups, the courts, and the Constitution define Freedom of Speech?
• What is the foundation of freedom of speech?  How has it evolved?
• At what point do the rights of the group, override the rights of the individual?
• Is policing free speech securing our safety or violating our freedom?
• What can we do as individuals and as community members to increase civility without suppressing freedom of speech?
• Are there inequities in accountability to civility?
• Is civility really creating a more civilized society?  Is there a relationship between incivility and violence?
• What is the effect of civility, in the form of political correctness, on the evolution of language?
• Should we consider editing history and literature for the sake of political correctness – are we destroying the historical record?
• Will censoring social media curb free speech?
• Does the accessibility and perceived anonymity of social media give users license to engage in conduct which would otherwise be reprehensible and/or illegal and cause irreparable harm and even death?
• What is the news media’s role in promoting civility and free speech in a democracy?