C_Clayton_Jones
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- Apr 28, 2011
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Wrong.Are you really that stupid?
If there are legal consequences to free speech, THEN ITS NOT FREE!!!
This has nothing to do with ‘free speech.’
The rights enshrined in the First Amendment are not ‘unlimited.’ It is not a right to say anything whatsoever at any time, place, or manner whatsoever and for whatever reason.
“Defamation (libel is written defamation; slander is oral defamation) is the intentional communication of a falsehood about a person, to someone other than that person, that injures the person’s reputation. The injured person may sue and recover damages under state law[.] Being required to pay damages for a defamatory statement restricts one’s freedom of speech; defamation, therefore, constitutes an exception to the First Amendment.”