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You can be in favor but in the US it is unconstitutional for a gov to broadly restrict speech. It's why each of these age verification + social media laws event

You can be in favor but in the US it is unconstitutional for a gov to broadly restrict speech. It's why each of these age verification + social media laws eventually get tossed. Legislators know this (or are too dumb to) but it's not their own dollars that are getting burned during this vote-baiting performance.

bilsbie 3y ago
The FCC seems to get around that pretty easily not allowing nipples on Tv.
- jcranmer 3y ago
  Only on broadcast TV, and the decision is fundamentally reliant on the nature that RF spectrum is a finite resource to be able to justify the restriction. SCOTUS has routinely struck down prohibitions against the same things in other media, including explicitly the internet.
carabiner 3y ago
Deprecating the Constitution is long overdue.
spogbiper 3y ago
honest question, is an american child granted the right of free speech? or do you get that right at a certain age?
- gottorf 3y ago
  > is an american child granted the right of free speech? or do you get that right at a certain age? This isn't the right way to frame the question. The Constitution prohibits government actors from infringing upon the right to free speech[0], including that of children; meaning e.g. an attempt to censor a child's treatise on some subject would be as illegal as doing the same to an adult. It's not that you get a "free speech license" when you turn 18. The restrictions on government power applies whether or not the person being infringed upon is a minor or an adult. [0]: This isn't an absolute, unqualified right. A child breaking into a profanity-laden tirade in the middle of class at a public (meaning taxpayer-funded and an extension of the government) school may believe they are exercising their First Amendment rights, but the school may still legally send that child home, for example, on the grounds that it disrupts the schooling of other children.

bilsbie 3y ago

The FCC seems to get around that pretty easily not allowing nipples on Tv.

jcranmer 3y ago
Only on broadcast TV, and the decision is fundamentally reliant on the nature that RF spectrum is a finite resource to be able to justify the restriction. SCOTUS has routinely struck down prohibitions against the same things in other media, including explicitly the internet.

carabiner 3y ago

Deprecating the Constitution is long overdue.

spogbiper 3y ago

honest question, is an american child granted the right of free speech? or do you get that right at a certain age?

gottorf 3y ago
> is an american child granted the right of free speech? or do you get that right at a certain age? This isn't the right way to frame the question. The Constitution prohibits government actors from infringing upon the right to free speech[0], including that of children; meaning e.g. an attempt to censor a child's treatise on some subject would be as illegal as doing the same to an adult. It's not that you get a "free speech license" when you turn 18. The restrictions on government power applies whether or not the person being infringed upon is a minor or an adult. [0]: This isn't an absolute, unqualified right. A child breaking into a profanity-laden tirade in the middle of class at a public (meaning taxpayer-funded and an extension of the government) school may believe they are exercising their First Amendment rights, but the school may still legally send that child home, for example, on the grounds that it disrupts the schooling of other children.