C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
The problem is conservatives are ignorant of First Amendment case law.Specifically the first amendment to the Constitution that specifies the right of free speech?
Is now any criticism of the government deemed to be against the law?
Isn't this what we see in totalitarian countries?
Spreading disinformation regarding the federal government’s once-a-decade decennial population count could land you in jail or fined thousands of dollars under new legislation introduced in the House and Senate this week.
The Honest Census Communications Act, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and in the House by Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., outlaws written, digital or telephonic communications about the Census that “has the intent to impede or prevent another person from participating in any census.”
Bill Would Criminalize Census Disinformation
“Under the government speech doctrine, the government has its own rights as speaker, immune from free speech challenges. It can assert its own ideas and messages without being subject to First Amendment claims of viewpoint discrimination.”
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Government Speech Doctrine
Under the government speech doctrine, the government has its own rights as speaker that can assert its own messages, immune from challenges of viewpoint discrimination.
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