Taking Care Of Your Freedom
Stephen Breyer was out in public discussing his judical views. He explained how Justices have to take into account changing times. No doubt. There's nothing in the Constitution about airplanes, radio or Wii. However, Breyer seems to see this as an opportunity to limit free speech on the internet. Well, the internet is just a series of tubes, with people sending personal letters through it, but somehow Breyer believes because it's a new medium he gets to decide who can speak and how.
He also tried to differentiate the right to say extremely offensive things to people whose children have died fighting for their country (which he supports), and the right to basic political speech from people who organize in ways Breyer doesn't like, such as through incorporation (which he opposes). Breyer belongs to the list of people who believe if we could just have a whole lot more regulation of speech, freedom will result.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:06 AM
3 Comments:
This is somehow related.
The Chinese government doesn't even want to posit what the founders would think about the internet. Time travel TV shows have been banned.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/making-tv-safer-chinese-censors-crack-down-on-time-travel/
The last thing China wants is its citizens imagining what life could be like otherwise.
The AP article you linked to purports to be a news article combining coverage of a recent speech by Breyer with an AP interview with him.
In the interview, Breyer was "asked if the court was more ideological than before," and in response, he "demurred."
Failing to obtain the desired result through the actual interview, the AP author supplies the answer that he was fishing for on his own authority:
"Scalia and other conservatives have a majority on the nation's highest court."
See how simple it is?
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