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No freedom is or has ever been absolute, certainly not 1st amendment freedoms (e.g. fraud).
by Frondo 11y ago
No freedom is or has ever been absolute, certainly not 1st amendment freedoms (e.g. fraud).
- hga 11y agoThe only speech I'm talking about, the only speech which was the subject of Citizens United, is core political speech. In that context, in the traditional US context, there's no "fraud", AKA criminal libel. Although I don't agree with the extremes of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which removed useful feedback in the system in the civil law arena, current case law makes protection of core political speech all but "absolute".
- 6stringmerc 11y agoTo paraphrase the late great Hunter S. Thompson: "There was a rumor going around the circle of journalists, and while I was the one who started the rumor, its existence meant I could report it as a fact."