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The First Amendment Was Designed To Protect Offensive Speech, Because Nobody Ever Tries To Ban The Other Kind.
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The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech,
because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
-- Mike Godwin, staff counsel, EFF
Related:
CDA /C-D-A/ The "Communications Decency Act" of 1996, passed on Black Thursday as section 502 of a major telecommunications reform bill.
The CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send a communication which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person....
A small difference of opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court in 'Texas v.
-- Justice William J. Brennan, writing for the majority....
Speech and expressive action that is supported by a majority of the population does not need protection.
.. the First Amendment protects the unpopular. -- Robert J. Wagma...
Mike: The Fourth Dimension is a shambles? Bernie
Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO inconsiderate....
Mike: "The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?" Bernie
Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO inconsiderate....
CRITIC: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point.
Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech....
Free speech for me but not for thee." -- Liberal's 1st Amendme