Archive for ‘Free Speech’
Sauk Rapids Graphic Artist Challenges National Security Agency « CBS Minnesota
Does the federal government have intellectual property rights? Does it matter in this case? More »
Supreme Court Declines to Decide When Online Speech Becomes an Illegal Threat | Threat Level | Wired.com
Attorneys for the veteran, Franklin Jeffries, maintained that the federal threats law — which dates to a 1932 statute making extortion illegal and applies to the offline world as well — was unconstitutional. A felony conviction, these lawyers said, is wrongly based on whether a “reasonable person” (.pdf) would believe the threatening statement was made with the intent to inflict bodily injury and was uttered to achieve some goal through intimidation. More »
Facebook ‘liking’ is protectected free speech, federal court says – The Washington Post
I should post this to Facebook and see who “likes” it. More »