Theoretically.
Not for want of trying on the Bush administration's part.
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Sun 22 May 2005, 14:30,
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And in practice as well.
Ever seen this thing called the Internet? Lots of criticism there, and on the media, and in street demos ...
The Bush Administration has done extremely little (almost nothing) to limit expression. They muttered a bit about making flag-burning illegal, but didn't actually do anything.
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Sun 22 May 2005, 14:33,
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The Bush Administration has done extremely little (almost nothing) to limit expression. They muttered a bit about making flag-burning illegal, but didn't actually do anything.
Yes, they did.
They just didn't manage to get the bill passed.
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Sun 22 May 2005, 14:35,
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then apparently it's not just
'theoretical' freedom of speech.
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Sun 22 May 2005, 14:49,
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They would have had to change the Constitution
and they would never have got support for that. So freedom to express yourself, including burning the flag, is reasonably well entrenched.
Unfortunately, there are still some areas where freedom of speech doesn't count as much -- like pornography, which somehow manages to get excluded from the First Amendment.
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Sun 22 May 2005, 14:52,
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Unfortunately, there are still some areas where freedom of speech doesn't count as much -- like pornography, which somehow manages to get excluded from the First Amendment.
Yes
this thing called the internet?
It's not part of america.
edit/ although, it's not like some people act like it is
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Sun 22 May 2005, 14:40,
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It's not part of america.
edit/ although, it's not like some people act like it is
It was invented by Americans
and it contains more criticism of the US and its government than you could read in ten lifetimes.
That's freedom of expression, that is.
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Sun 22 May 2005, 14:47,
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That's freedom of expression, that is.
um...
the Internet is just the underlying infrastructure, growing out of the original arpanet, and was indeed a product primarily of americans in the early years, however citizens of many other countries also made significant contributions to the protocols that make it work
being a communications network the 'Internet' however does not contain information of much interest to most people, it is the systems connected to it that do that
information is commonly made available on this infrastructure and others via the systems that are part of the world wide web, which was not invented by americans, but by a british chap called tim berners-lee (now sir tim and surely a candidate for a b3ta interview), in europe, at cern
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Sun 22 May 2005, 15:38,
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being a communications network the 'Internet' however does not contain information of much interest to most people, it is the systems connected to it that do that
information is commonly made available on this infrastructure and others via the systems that are part of the world wide web, which was not invented by americans, but by a british chap called tim berners-lee (now sir tim and surely a candidate for a b3ta interview), in europe, at cern