free speech and history

by e_dog

Posted to Feedback on 2004-03-31 12:14:00

Parent message is 629463
as a concept is not restricted to its legal recognition. but, anyway, the legal meaning of free speech various in various places and over time.

1) you are right about editorial autonomy as concerns newspapers. but litkicks is not a newspaper. whether the same rules apply here is an open question.

2) there are circumstances in which private property must be allowed to be used as a forum by others for free speech activities. in California, for instance, the State Constitution as constued by the state supreme court (at some point in time at least) protected the right of demonstrators to demonstrate on privately owned shopping centers parking lots. private property, but still free speech rights under state constituional law. the case went to the u.s. federal supreme court because the private owners claimed a first amendment right to exclude others from their property which was rejected by the supreme court.



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