do you want him to be able to pick up a book givining him detailed instructions on how to kill you
random thoughts Send a noteboard - 21/12/2010 05:31:09 PM
and not get caught? Killing someone is easy, getting away which it is harder.
Free speech is not a blanket that covers any and every utterance. You can be fired for making racist or sexual comments. Not just in the private industry but by the government. That is expressing actual political views that which is what free speech is really meant top protect. Since we have already decided you can’t say certain things I don’t have a problem saying you can’t publish manuals on how to make WMD’s from things you bought at Home Depot or on how to rape children.
Free speech is not a blanket that covers any and every utterance. You can be fired for making racist or sexual comments. Not just in the private industry but by the government. That is expressing actual political views that which is what free speech is really meant top protect. Since we have already decided you can’t say certain things I don’t have a problem saying you can’t publish manuals on how to make WMD’s from things you bought at Home Depot or on how to rape children.
This should make for an interesting debate
- 21/12/2010 02:19:39 PM
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Free speech. An easy way for me to tell is replace the topic with the word "murder"
- 21/12/2010 02:33:17 PM
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I don't know. Isn't it illegal to write a how to for making a bomb?
- 21/12/2010 02:51:34 PM
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Incitement to racial hatred isn't illegal in the US, I believe...
- 21/12/2010 04:02:58 PM
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I think they are on slippery slope but a fairly firm part up near the top
- 21/12/2010 03:46:58 PM
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What about a textbook, detailing how to make explosives?
- 21/12/2010 04:13:02 PM
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do you want him to be able to pick up a book givining him detailed instructions on how to kill you
- 21/12/2010 05:31:09 PM
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First Amendment free speech protections were written to provide just that.
- 22/12/2010 06:56:28 AM
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As is the case so often of late, impossible to tell as there isn't enough information.
- 21/12/2010 06:33:29 PM
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The guy is gross and disgusting of course, but what is in the book?
- 22/12/2010 01:21:13 AM
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