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Never knew freedom of speech in the US has an age restriction - seem to vaguely recall some Supreme Court case involving a school board that limited the rights
by tibbydudeza 4y ago
Never knew freedom of speech in the US has an age restriction - seem to vaguely recall some Supreme Court case involving a school board that limited the rights of their students in some case - think the SC said it was ok in some cases.
- NationalPark 4y agoChildren can't enter into contracts either, we actually do not give them many of the same rights we give adults. This is because children are considered immature and unable to act in their own self interest. There have been "childrens rights" movements in the past though, it's not an uncontested subject...
- iamthirsty 4y ago> Never knew freedom of speech in the US has an age restriction Freedom of speech is freedom from Government intervention. Social Media companies are private companies, and you can absolutely regulate what products & services have age limits, as the government isn't technically restricting speech.
- vikingerik 4y agoThis comes up in every such discussion: freedom of speech as a legal construct applies to governments, but freedom of speech as an ideal and principle is something that private platforms can support and encourage, or censor and deny. We need a distinction for this, like "free as in legal" speech versus "free as in voice".
- LegionMammal978 4y agoHow wouldn't this bill constitute government intervention? The government would be making it illegal for any person or business to run a social media platform that transmits the speech of minors, even if they want to run such a platform.
- loeg 4y agoThere are huge limits on the rights of minors in the US, unfortunately. Tinker won, but students have lost more recent first amendment battles (e.g., Frederick).