I usually answer the "police ahead" message with the opposite of the truth. If the police are there, I answer that they are not. If they are gone, I answer that they're still there. It's a lie. My bad feelings of guilt over lying are more than balanced by my good feelings that lives are saved when we reduce speeding. That's my free speech, and thank you for supporting it. And thank you, anybody, for not speeding, whether the police are there or not.
Yep, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that, depending on the context, lies are protected speech.
In the 2012 case United States v. Alvarez, for example, a water district official named Xavier Alvarez falsely claimed to be a Medal of Honor recipient. This violated the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, which made it illegal to falsely claim to have received a military decoration.
But the Court ruled that the Act was unconstitutional, partly because it was overly broad and criminalized harmless lies by punishing people simply for making false claims without having to prove any harm was done.
I hope there is interest on a newly released year 1942 called permanent Revolution a total state of war now Authoritarianism Fascism & Totalitarianism published now. Available on all media online platforms www.sigmundneumann.com
The reason FIRE is now the preeminent free speech protector, is that the former champion of free speech, the ACLU, figured out it was orders of magnitude more profitable to become a partisan wathr-carrier for one side only.
If an American government, of whatever Party or parties, violates the First Amendment, please, call them out. Call out Biden's censorship of social media, and call out Trump's attempts. Don't become the ACLU.
Regardless of which "side" they claim to be on, the First Amendment is always on the side of the American people, who have the right to think, say, and worship without fear of government sanction.
Right wing influencers are promoting the app and encouraging people to flood the app with bogus sightings. If the government was smart, they would to the same thing rather than trying to ban the app.
I usually answer the "police ahead" message with the opposite of the truth. If the police are there, I answer that they are not. If they are gone, I answer that they're still there. It's a lie. My bad feelings of guilt over lying are more than balanced by my good feelings that lives are saved when we reduce speeding. That's my free speech, and thank you for supporting it. And thank you, anybody, for not speeding, whether the police are there or not.
Yep, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that, depending on the context, lies are protected speech.
In the 2012 case United States v. Alvarez, for example, a water district official named Xavier Alvarez falsely claimed to be a Medal of Honor recipient. This violated the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, which made it illegal to falsely claim to have received a military decoration.
But the Court ruled that the Act was unconstitutional, partly because it was overly broad and criminalized harmless lies by punishing people simply for making false claims without having to prove any harm was done.
I hope there is interest on a newly released year 1942 called permanent Revolution a total state of war now Authoritarianism Fascism & Totalitarianism published now. Available on all media online platforms www.sigmundneumann.com
The reason FIRE is now the preeminent free speech protector, is that the former champion of free speech, the ACLU, figured out it was orders of magnitude more profitable to become a partisan wathr-carrier for one side only.
If an American government, of whatever Party or parties, violates the First Amendment, please, call them out. Call out Biden's censorship of social media, and call out Trump's attempts. Don't become the ACLU.
Regardless of which "side" they claim to be on, the First Amendment is always on the side of the American people, who have the right to think, say, and worship without fear of government sanction.
Right wing influencers are promoting the app and encouraging people to flood the app with bogus sightings. If the government was smart, they would to the same thing rather than trying to ban the app.