Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 0:23:44 GMT
Applying the First Amendment to Broadcasting
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -- 1st AMENDMENT of the U.S. CONSTITUTION.
The bolded portion of the text applies as an individual liberty... each of us as a person and citizen being an individual.
Our individual right to freedom of speech does not extend to other media platforms under the control of other individuals.
What I mean is, a radio station has no obligation to allow your free speech on its airwaves unless the licensee decides to grant that privilege.
The radio station is its own entity, holding the same liberty as a person in that the licensee is free to establish the speech policy of the station under his command.
By the same rule of procedure a web forum, TheALPB_com, for example, has no obligation to open its platform to general free speech of posters, and may at its own discretion set the limits and boundaries of permissible speech.
The converse of speech, the liberty to listen, is likewise protected, and no person nor radio station nor forum is obligated to listen to another's freely exercised speech.
Were we to bring privacy into the discussion we could talk about confidential speech and the impropriety of uninvited listening.
There is no requirement to know what you are talking about.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -- 1st AMENDMENT of the U.S. CONSTITUTION.
The bolded portion of the text applies as an individual liberty... each of us as a person and citizen being an individual.
Our individual right to freedom of speech does not extend to other media platforms under the control of other individuals.
What I mean is, a radio station has no obligation to allow your free speech on its airwaves unless the licensee decides to grant that privilege.
The radio station is its own entity, holding the same liberty as a person in that the licensee is free to establish the speech policy of the station under his command.
By the same rule of procedure a web forum, TheALPB_com, for example, has no obligation to open its platform to general free speech of posters, and may at its own discretion set the limits and boundaries of permissible speech.
The converse of speech, the liberty to listen, is likewise protected, and no person nor radio station nor forum is obligated to listen to another's freely exercised speech.
Were we to bring privacy into the discussion we could talk about confidential speech and the impropriety of uninvited listening.
There is no requirement to know what you are talking about.
