free speech & internet
Lisa & Ian Murray
seamus at accessone.com
Fri Feb 11 18:01:32 PST 2000
>>Leaving aside
the obvious problem of its applicability outside the geographical United
States, the essential weakness of the Amendment at the dawn of the 21st
century is that it only prohibits governmental interference in speech; it
says nothing about commercial interference in speech.
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Yet another reason the parchment's gotta go. Just where does the Gov. get
the right to dispense/delegate a power that it itself does not have? Along
similar lines isn't this what the Myanmar/MA purchasing law case is about,
namely, a state government should have the same rights a corporation has?
Justin, can you help?
Ian
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