tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post8740095688682026735..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Freedom of speechLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-51462480818374504232016-02-26T10:42:53.929-07:002016-02-26T10:42:53.929-07:00It is interesting that so many people point to the...It is interesting that so many people point to the 1st amendment when they feel their rights have been violated when the amendment itself simply prohibits Congress from infringing. Most state constitutions have similar guarantees but again, it is about government restrictions, not commercial restrictions. <br /><br />Twitter has an interesting problem from a business perspective, they don't want postings to drive people away but they don't want to bore people enough to leave their site by overly restrictive policies. <br /><br />I haven't read McCain and don't use Twitter so I really don't have dog in this fight ... just wanted to let you know I saw it, Larry. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14055272872034449313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-48954068430789021472016-02-24T09:36:41.556-07:002016-02-24T09:36:41.556-07:00There are freedom of speech limits all over the pl...There are freedom of speech limits all over the place. If you can show that the speech was done to do harm....false testament in court...or yelling something (FIRE) to cause a panic for no reason then it is totally illegal!!! And all that is private speech.<br />If you are a royal ass and disrupting my business picture you will be cut off at my business. this does NOT stop your speech as you can go onto the public side walk and talk all you want!!! Speech is NOT the same as race or gender as you are born such and cannot change it and as a group we have decided that you can not discriminate! Speech is basically a voluntary choice to do it.<br /> When they pass a federal law forbidding discrimination based on speech then we may have some problems. L.Longnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-88825713467783425862016-02-24T07:34:22.648-07:002016-02-24T07:34:22.648-07:001st Amendment cases always ask where the "sta...1st Amendment cases always ask where the "state action" was, though. Now, because our system supposedly values free speech so deeply, there are probably instances where a private actor, as you say, might be found to have done something so egregious that it violates some sort of free speech rights. But without the state actor prong, it's going to have to be pretty creative. <br /><br />The irony of what I just said, of course, lies in the fact that in recent years, public employees are one of the few groups whose 1st Amendment rights the Supreme Court has specifically limited. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06856160423100846727noreply@blogger.com