Just a little thing from a CollegeHumor article that I think a lot of people need to read. I dont want people to think Im against the First Amendment. Its the reason I can write this, and practice my religion, and its the reason that my one man show was never shut down, despite the strong public outcry. That said, most of the time I hear people invoke the First Amendment, its not being used correctly. The First Amendment grants you the right to say what you want, but it does not completely protect you from all consequences of your words, nor does it guarantee you a platform on which to speak. Let me give you an example. Its a little farfetched, but hear me out: Say I were to write something that some people misinterpret as me speaking out against the Second Amendment. If those people were to write that I was an idiot, and my work should be taken down, that would not be an infringement of my First Amendment rights. That would be those people exercising theirs. If what I wrote was perceived as too controversial, and the website I wrote it for took it down, that still wouldnt be a First Amendment issue because I dont have any legal right to being published in the first place, and the website has every right to protect itself from controversy. The First Amendment would only come into play if some government entity tried to censure my article or punish me for what I had written in some way. I mean, its more complicated than that but people the basic gist is that most of the time when people invoke the First Amendment outside of the courts, theyre not so much fighting for their rights as they are being whiney, self-indulgent ass hats. Make sense? Okay good. Whew! Thank God I wont actually have to deal with anything like that. It sounds really stressful... Credit for this goes to college humor at this link collegehumor/post/6952600/5-arguments-people-need-to-stop-using#
Posted on: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:17:10 +0000
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