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I'm not USAian, so I may be wrong; but I believe the 1st is about the state restricting speech, not about the courts enforcing penalties for civil damages.
by denton-scratch 3y ago
I'm not USAian, so I may be wrong; but I believe the 1st is about the state restricting speech, not about the courts enforcing penalties for civil damages.
- mikeyouse 3y agoYeah that’s not right - the most prominent examples are about the state restricting speech, but the first amendment provides really broad protections to all manner of speech that would have to be refereed by ‘the state’. Ken White (Popehat) is a prominent 1st amendment attorney and has written about this - the second bullet point applies; https://web.archive.org/web/20240116140758/https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/11/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-the-first-amendment/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240116140758/https://www.popeh...