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.
then apparently it's not just'theoretical' freedom of speech.
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Purple Onion,
Sun 22 May 2005, 14:49,
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They would have had to change the Constitutionand 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.
no.I get most of information from books and
magazines.
Purple Onion,
Sun 22 May 2005, 14:57,
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Yesthis 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 Americansand 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.
you shouldn't believe everythingyou read in The Sun.
( Purple Onion,
Sun 22 May 2005, 15:08,
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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
(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
empire of the pussycat requires more champage,
Sun 22 May 2005, 15:38,
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