Ken White is an attorney specializing in free-speech issues, and is the main contributor to the well-known and useful law website Popehat. This week he has a good article in The Atlantic about American free-speech law, which you can read by clicking on the screenshot below:
We talk a lot about free speech on this website, as it’s an important issue in politics, especially on American college campuses. But “free speech” as construed by students often differs considerably from free speech as the courts have defined it under the First Amendment. White’s article aims to let us know what the law really is, not what it should be. As he says:
What speech should be protected by the First Amendment is open to debate. Americans can, and should, argue about what the law ought to be. That’s what free people do. But while we’re all entitled to our…
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