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From a legal point of view can you limit free speech through a end user license agreement? Free speech is protected by the first amendment, many countries basic
by acd 8y ago
From a legal point of view can you limit free speech through a end user license agreement? Free speech is protected by the first amendment, many countries basic legal laws. If some challenged it and it went to the high court how would it likely judge?
- monocasa 8y agoFree speech is a protection that the government can't take away, but you can give it away of your own volition. Think NDAs.
- richrichardsson 8y agoI'm not a US citizen but I seem to be more aware of what the 1st amendment actually entails more than a seemingly large proportion of actual citizens, surely you guys learn that stuff at school? Is it just presented really dryly and so kids don't pay attention?
- monocasa 8y agoOur civics education has really gone downhill for decades.
- phyller 8y agoThis argument has been repeated so much, I'm going to try to explain. I'm not a lawyer, but this is what I learned in school in the US. There are numerous examples of voluntarily giving up your right to free speech. In the United States there are criminal and civil suits. You won't be criminally charged by the government for your free speech about CPU benchmarks, but if you actually agreed as part of a contract to not disclose benchmarks in order to get something, then you can be successfully sued by an organization or individual in a civil suit. They can't throw you in jail but they can take your money. I highly suspect the same thing is true in most first world countries, otherwise a lot of companies wouldn't be able to do business because it would be illegal to keep trade secrets. What did they tell you in school?
- richrichardsson 8y agoI'm originally from UK, we don't learn about US Constitution, but my understanding is the 1st is about the government not being allowed to restrict your right to free speech, however a lot of people seem to be under the impression this means no-one is allowed to restrict your speech.
- dragonwriter 8y agoYes, free speech in some legal systems (including the US) includes the right to sell your speech (and restraint from speech is also a form of speech.)