NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege

An anonymous reader writes "A group of four NY state senators have written a paper suggesting that free speech should be looked upon as a government granted privilege rather than a right. They're specifically concerned about cyberstalking and cyberbullying, and are introducing legislation to make both of those against the law. Among other troubling concepts, they argue that merely 'excluding' someone from a group is a form of cyberbullying."

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Re:Bullshit

[betterunixthanunix]

shouting fire in a crowded theatre

Why does nobody bother to cite the actual case this came from? Probably because it flies in the face of the first amendment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

No, that is not a joke, the Supreme Court really did rule that Schenck did not have the right to speak against the draft during World War I.