US high court mulls free speech
Frankly, i find free speech to be an important aspect to our freedoms we all tout in our good old US of A, but to what extent do we have these freedoms?
From what I can gather and learned through out my courses (yippee) is the dividing line between acceptable speech and restricted speech is that of instigating physical violence towards others. This restriction, which typically stops you from stating things such as FIRE in a movie theater or bomb on an airplane, both are examples where your words lead to others actions. Hence you can't "say" these things without getting into trouble.
So if you take the example of the incident now going to the supreme court would you rule that it is protected under our constitutional rights of free speech?
The US Supreme Court is considering its first major test of students' free speech rights in two decades.
At issue is whether a school principal violated a student's right to free speech by suspending him for displaying a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus".
High school student Joseph Frederick unfurled the banner during a school trip to watch the Olympic flame pass through Juneau, Alaska, in 2002.
SourceMr Frederick said the words on his 14ft (4.26m) banner did not relate to drug use and were meant to be funny in an attempt to get on television.
Frankly, i find free speech to be an important aspect to our freedoms we all tout in our good old US of A, but to what extent do we have these freedoms?
From what I can gather and learned through out my courses (yippee) is the dividing line between acceptable speech and restricted speech is that of instigating physical violence towards others. This restriction, which typically stops you from stating things such as FIRE in a movie theater or bomb on an airplane, both are examples where your words lead to others actions. Hence you can't "say" these things without getting into trouble.
So if you take the example of the incident now going to the supreme court would you rule that it is protected under our constitutional rights of free speech?