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Please understand what Free Speech is before you say it is being attacked

associatedcontent.com — The 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution states that "Congress shall pass no law." The Freedom of Speech granted to all of us as a right of being United States citizens has - gasp - limits. One of these happens to be in a corporate setting. An employer can regulate your work space. They can tell you what you can and cannot say...

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  • ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Grow up.

    We are Free Men, in a free country. That means we're free to pursue whatever life path we desire. We are not slaves. The government cannot assess me as a child and say "yup, he'd be good at digging ditches." They can't tell me what religion to believe.

    I am not free to murder people. Or to rape them, or to steal. That's what laws are for.

    Freedom always has limits.
  • tgunr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The amendment fully stated is "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 peacefully to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances."

    Freedom of speech means freedom of speech against the government not necessarily your freedom to espouse the content of a key protected by law.

    The intent of the law as the founders framed it was to prevent the government from passing any law which would restrict the citizens from discourse about the GOVERNMENT. It does not necessarily give its citizens the right to publish or discuss anything else.

    If you do not like the law expressed in the DCMA (and I do not), then get the law changed or revoked! As it is written, it is an extremely restrictive law but there is nothing in it that restricts your enjoyment of discourse about the Government.

    Same goes for so called "separation of church and state", the intent was for the Government to not be able to interfere with your choice and exercise of religion, it doesn't mean that religion cannot be expressed in the government, only the converse, That government cannot be expressed in religion.

    It was all about the people being able to freely discuss its government as opposed to the laws of other countries which can and do restrict its citizens, often severely.

    Also, who was it that said "Freedom of the press belongs mainly to those who own a press"?
  • chrismgtis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"If you do not like the law expressed in the DCMA (and I do not), then get the law changed or revoked!"

    Right on.

    I would like to add, if you don't like it, go through the correct channels to get the law changed or shut the ***** up, so you don't annoy the ***** out of everyone and violate our freedom to enjoy services such as *cough* Digg.
  • treed, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Free Speech exists beyond the first amendment. Yes. Employers have the right to censor their workplace. We have the right to not work there, or to not buy their product. It's still a free speech issue, whether or not the government is involved.

    Buried for being retarded.
  • dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4This is exactly why free speech is a lie.

    Is it free or is it limited? You can't have it both ways.
  • LordLucless, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Mispost.

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