Some Trotskyite Wisconsisn judge apparently doesn't understand the grave dangers posed by a free speech forum. Why won't he answer inane hypotheticals about viewpoint discrimination? I demand answers!!!11!!!1!!!!
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Matt suggests that Walker is almost certainly overreaching in his politically selective attacks on the collective bargaining rights of public employees. As the protests continue, the polling data backs this.
Not surprisingly but still depressingly, the authoritarian faction of Wisconsin politics is beginning to assert itself over the pro-speech/pro-dissent faction, as Scott Walker has closed the Capitol to any citizens.
Shorter Ann Althouse: "Political protest should be stamped out by the state if it offends my exceedingly delicate aesthetic sensibilities." Alas, she makes no attempt to square this position with her recent arguments that principles of "free speech" mean that conservative commentators should have permanent...
Since we seem to be getting some Althouse defenders in comments here, I suppose I should expand on a couple points: There are, indeed, "free speech" principles that go beyond.
Jack Shafer's column about speech in the wake of the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords conflates several different claims into a broad argument about free speech. Some of these claims.
A few points about Michael Lind's argument here: Even if WikiLeaks is defined as a news organization, American law allows both prior injunctions halting publication of government secrets and prosecutions of media organizations following publication, in certain circumstances. In New York Times v. Sullivan, the...
In response to Jon Chait and his many other defenders, I think it's worth making a few points about the Williams firing. Let's start off by assuming, arguendo, that his.
Nice to see the Second Circuit rule correctly on the "fleeting expletive" issue the Supreme Court dodged in a sometimes embarrassing opinion by alleged First Amendment absolutist Antonin Scalia.
Like any good traitorous socialist lefty, I am supposed to treat European culture and politics as decidedly superior to the American alternative. And I often do! But on the subject of libel laws, it seems quite clear to me that Americans have a much more...
The Supreme Court today held -- in a 5-4 decisions along predictable ideological lines -- that an FCC regulatory change that made broadcasters legally liable for broadcasting even fleeting, isolated.
I haven't considered the issue enough to know what I think of the (plausible) commercial speech arguments put forward by 5CA, but I will say that the idea of licensing.