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How is code speech? To me it is the equivalent to nuts and bolts of a machine.

• bhaak 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States > After four years and one regulatory change, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional.
  • meltyness 4y ago
    Hopefully the next time something like this gets trounced it is congress turning the IRS into like, 20k LOC, instead of ... a bureau.
  • salawat 4y ago
    The 9th Circuit has also ruled that bees are fish[1], and has regularly bucked precedent that to most of the country is settled jurisprudence. [2] This escalating to a point one of the Circuit's own judges began lambasting the Circuit itself. [3] https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/us/california-bees-fish-court-ruling-scn-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/us/california-bees-fish-court... https://www.courthousenews.com/carrying-guns-in-public-is-not-a-constitutional-right-ninth-circuit-rules/ https://www.courthousenews.com/carrying-guns-in-public-is-no... https://reason.com/2022/01/26/a-federal-judges-satirical-opinion-highlights-disrespect-for-the-second-amendment/ https://reason.com/2022/01/26/a-federal-judges-satirical-opi... You'll understand if what the 9th Circuit declares has lost a touch of automatic deference from an intellectual, rational consistency, and linguistic abuse point of view, I hope.
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• tomjen3 4y ago
  The US has expansive view of what is speech. A theater play satirizing the US congress is definitely a political statement, yet it also just code for actors, right?