FREE SPEECH AND OTHER PRIVILEGES

ITEM: New York state senators David Valesky, David Carlucci, Diane Savino, and Jeff Klein are proposing a bill to make online bullying illegal – which would also include flaming, trolling, outing, dissing and pretty much anything that involves saying anything negative about anyone.

To get around the inevitable First Amendment issues such a law might bring up, the senators argue that the 1A is a privilege, not a right.

Which, as you might imagine, irks 1A junkies like me.

( Oh hell, there he goes again ... )

EDITORIAL NOTE: I’ve noticed that some conservative web sites have making hay of the fact that all four of the NY state senators arguing that the 1A is a privilege, not a right, are Democrats – who, as we all know, are all about taking everyone’s rights away.

That might be meaningful if it wasn’t for the fact that conservatives like Bryan Fischer have used the same “privilege” argument with their own calls for 1A restrictions.

But then Fischer is talking about religion, not speech, and says that the 1A is a right reserved for Christians – for everyone else (by which he means “terrorists” “Muslims”) it’s “a privilege that can be revoked.”

So technically it’s not the same thing, I guess.

Three o’clock high,

This is dF

IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP IF YOU WANT TO ROCK AND ROLL

Lemmy knows this.



[Via Biscuits For Smut]

It ain’t easy,

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