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Free speech protections for individuals don't protect us against prosecution for making fraudulent claims or certain types of lies (e.g. libel, slander, yelling
by Perceval 17y ago
Free speech protections for individuals don't protect us against prosecution for making fraudulent claims or certain types of lies (e.g. libel, slander, yelling fire in a crowded theater, perjury, and so on). Why would a right to free speech protect corporations for making fraudulent or otherwise endangering statements about their products?
- guelo 17y agoSo you're saying we already have reasonable exceptions to the first amendment to protect society from behavior deemed objectionable as determined by congress? Kind of like when congress decided that corporations should be kept of the political process.