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City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website

Posted by kdawson on from the nolo-mi-tangere dept.

Mike writes "In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind case, the Sheboygan city attorney ordered Jennifer Reisinger to remove a link to the city's police department from her Web site. The city went further, she claims, launching a criminal investigation of her for linking to the department on one of her sites, and in response she's suing the mayor and the city. 'The mayor decided to use his office to get back at Jennifer for her efforts in the recall and picked this to do it,' said her attorney, Paul Bucher. It appears this will go to court, and the question will be can a city (or any business or Web property) stop people from posting a link to its site?"

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  1. Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? by Rary · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In November, the city withdrew its demand that Reisinger not link to city government sites.

    SO um, what's the issue?

    Not only that, but the headline says that the city is suing the woman, but both the article and the summary state that the woman is suing the city. Did the editor even read the summary?

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  2. Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? by RMB2 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm sorry, citizens have the "responsibility" of acting "responsibly"? And whom exactly is in charge of the subjective definition of "responsibly"?

    Additionally, you earn +0 Karma for misinterpreting the First Amendment. A very simple search would tell you that
    1) The Supreme Court decision (Schenck v. United States in 1919) only described falsely shouting fire in a theater, and
    2)

    Schenck was later limited by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which ruled that speech could only be banned when it was directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot), the test which remains until this day.

    You might notice that no mention is made of "responsible" action. I, for one, find the lack of such subjectivity to be a good thing.

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  3. Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? by Repossessed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you can't shout out "FIRE" and cause a panic

    Why do people constantly use an argument meant to typify speech which leads to violence, injury and destruction, when attacking speech which does no such thing?

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