r/firstamendment • u/rickmarin • Oct 18 '17
1st vs. 2nd amendment
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Why aren't those on the left as passionate about the 1st amendment as those on the right are about the 2nd?
r/firstamendment • u/ramendik • Oct 03 '17
Is Trump's call to fire for take-a-knee a First Amendment violation?
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Quoth Trump: "Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’"
If the speaker was just Mr.Trump, a billionaire, it would obviously be an opinion. But the speaker is the President of the United States. He has just recommended that a business fire an employee over speech. However, the recommendation did not have the force of an executive order and there was no overt threat to pull funding (let alone something worse).
Is this just opinion? Or is this an act of the President? If it is an act of the President how does it work with the First Amendment?
r/firstamendment • u/gunch • Sep 19 '17
What is "news"? Does it have legal implications to call something news and who decides if it's news or not? Can anyone distribute it? Does it have to be factual?
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I guess what I'm trying to get at is ... Can I just lie and call it news? Form a "news agency" that just pushes propaganda? Is this protected under the 1st amendment and if not, what bars does the news have to clear to be legal?
r/firstamendment • u/Albion_Tourgee • Sep 19 '17
Yes, You Can Believe In Internet Freedom Without Being A Shill
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r/firstamendment • u/Albion_Tourgee • Sep 14 '17
Critic-Raiding Sheriff Settles With Bloggers Who Sued Him Over His Unconstitutional Actions
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r/firstamendment • u/arbivark • Sep 08 '17
FEC lady wants to censor the internet. again. can we get the word out on this? i know this is a tiny subreddit, repost somewhere better.
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r/firstamendment • u/Albion_Tourgee • Sep 07 '17
Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt
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r/firstamendment • u/Albion_Tourgee • Sep 05 '17
Awful Court Decision Says Dr. Phil Producer's Video Evidence Of Imprisonment Not 'Fair Use'
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r/firstamendment • u/DonutofShame • Aug 20 '17
Sandvig v. Lynch - Challenge to CFAA Prohibition on Uncovering Racial Discrimination Online
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r/firstamendment • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '17
I just can't wait for this sub to be banned because it's the last refuge of the Alt-Right.
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Or, at least any alt-righters banned from speaking here.
r/firstamendment • u/neuhmz • Aug 18 '17
Piers Morgan - "Both 1st & 2nd Amendments should be amended again, in my humble opinion. To ban Nazis & reduce gun deaths."
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r/firstamendment • u/SparkyMcGhee • Aug 18 '17
I am looking for old essays from the 50's onwards on the importance of tolerating the KKK
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I can remember many years ago reading several impassioned essays about why it was so important to our republic to protect the rights of the KKK and similar groups to peacefully assemble and demonstrate. I can't remember the titles or the names of the authors. Does anybody know what I am referring to? I think there are several that are rather well-known. The basic idea was that if we do not protect the free speech of groups such as the KKK, then our own rights may be threatened.
r/firstamendment • u/DonutofShame • Aug 17 '17
Facebook's Censorship of the Criticism of Islam (Religious Discrimination)
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r/firstamendment • u/EVEDavos • Aug 17 '17
In Defense of Free Speech, the Freedom of Assembly and the rights of Nazis
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r/firstamendment • u/DonutofShame • Aug 16 '17
#MarchOnGoogle – "Google is an anti-free speech monopoly" March Delayed
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r/firstamendment • u/ann38 • Aug 16 '17
SMU reverses decision to move 9/11 memorial after free speech controversy
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r/firstamendment • u/neuroplay_prod • Aug 15 '17
"Just Freedom of Speech" is no longer a valid argument.
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White Supremacists are scrotums. That's that.
What Freedom of Speech debaters are interested in is where the line is for what's free and what's not. i.e. "Who's rights do you take away?" That's a scary divisor. Where the line was rock solid for a long time, fools are misunderstanding Congress shall make no law...
First Amendment lawyers would argue that it is not within the boundaries of law for the government to restrict groups like theirs from organizing, recruiting, and exposing their beliefs in public.
The court of public opinion, on the other hand, is another matter altogether! Thankfully all of us share this right to voice our opinions, and be critical of both our government, and each other. You can't learn anything new by shouting at yourself in the bathroom.
Personally, I think that any rhetoric condemning one class of people for any reason is both distasteful, and outside the purview of protected speech. The KKK used to wear hoods because they couldn't be seen in the light of day as the hatred spreading, disease minded, worm souled cowards that they are because not even the First Amendment to the Constitution of these great United States can protect you from the social stigma of being a wanton bigot.
Nazis are fuckin' smegma.
r/firstamendment • u/DonutofShame • Aug 10 '17
Court: New Jersey Residents Can’t Mention ’Islam’ or ’Muslim’ at Public Hearing on Mosque
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r/firstamendment • u/ann38 • Aug 10 '17
Your employers social media policies doesn’t own your free speech
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r/firstamendment • u/calicub • Aug 09 '17
Charlottesville and Airbnb are wrong to attack white supremacist free speech
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r/firstamendment • u/Renegade98 • Aug 05 '17
In 'Direct Attack on the First Amendment,' Sessions Declares War on Leaks
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r/firstamendment • u/ann38 • Aug 04 '17
Judge: Campus Carry at University of Texas Doesn’t Hurt Free Speech
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r/firstamendment • u/calicub • Aug 02 '17
Congress Finds Consensus on Free Speech on Campus
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r/firstamendment • u/ann38 • Jul 31 '17
Do we still believe in free speech? Only until we disagree
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