Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Limits of free speech tested by off-the-cuff online remarks

We read:
"What’s a tweet, between friends? The law says sometimes it’s a threat. One man thought he was just bantering with his pals when he joked about blowing an airport sky-high. Another was reacting to a radio phone-in when he mused about stoning a journalist to death.

Because they made their throwaway comments on Twitter, both are in legal trouble. Their cases have outraged civil libertarians and inflamed debate about the limits of free speech in a Web 2.0 world.

The Internet makes private jokes, tastes, and opinions available for public consumption, blurring the line between public and private in a way that has left the law gasping to keep up.”

Source

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

If speech is not completely free, then it's not free at all.

Spurwing Plover said...

Any school that suspends a student for wearing a patiotic or NRA T-Shirt becuase it oddended some wretched illegal aliens should be sued for this

Anonymous said...

Plover - are you drunk again or lacking a dictionary or spell-check?

Anonymous said...

Anon 4:02 PM.....

Try yelling "FIRE" in a crowded American cinema.

After all that's part of the "completely free" speach you're referring to.

Spurwing Plover said...

DONT MAKE ME GET VIOLENT ANNON