R.I.P. Scout26
A Supreme Court argument on Monday about whether North Carolina may bar registered sex offenders from using Facebook, Twitter and similar services turned into a discussion of how thoroughly social media have transformed American civic discourse.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said that social media sites had become, and in some ways had surpassed, the public square as a place for discussion and debate.“The sites that Justice Kagan has described and their utility and the extent of their coverage are greater than the communication you could have ever had, even in the paradigm of public square,” Justice Kennedy said.
Tom Gresham tweeted this article out wondering if a free speech ruling could be used to stop twitter and Facebook from banning gun related stuff. Or many of the other things they ban people for now that I think about it. I guess it depends on how the ruling goes.
the founding fathers never envisioned the internetfree speech protections apply solely to crying in the town square, and using quill and paper.
Utter radical bullshat. The manual/mechanical printing press was widely used in that time period, 1st Amendment included Freedom of the press, which obviously meant the printing press so in addition to your limitations manual/mechanical printing presses are also covered.
As long as they are hand-cranked....
Speaking of which, who else here is old enough to remember cranking the mimeograph back in elementary/junior/high school?
That would be me.
