Since free speech on the internet is difficult given the reliance on third parties to transmit or access it, what about the Press instead? What makes the Press the Press such that it is free from govt infringement. If I were to print flyers,
am I the Press?
And if so, would this be a way to more easily achieve free speech? Produce a newspaper, allow anyone to say anything they want in it, print it myself, deliver it myself. Can anyone stop me?
The equivalent is impossible on the internet, which requires internet providers, wireless or cable companies, network protocol associations.
Thoughts?
re: substack, which faces the same problems. If third parties want to deplatform them, they can. Is the Press more free?
"Society has a trust problem," Substack co-founders Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi declared in a joint statement late...
reason.com
I mean, there are website that essentially have no rules. If you don't mind seeing child porn you can always go to 8chan and have nearly perfect free speech. After a few seconds there you will probably realize why most people choose to stick with website that moderate or have TOS.
Even when they're libeling you
www.theatlantic.com
U.S. Court: Bloggers Are Journalists
Even when they're libeling you
By
Robinson Meyer
JANUARY 21, 2014
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"So everyone—not just journalists—benefits from the First Amendment’s protections, which makes bloggers (even slimy ones) legally equivalent to journalists*. Cox’s case will get a new trial in Oregon’s district court, and the jury will be appropriately informed of the
Gertz rule. Perhaps the award of damages will be reduced..."
Until a SCOTUS ruling, (and even then, now that this white Roman Catholic and self proclaimed "lynching victim" Clarence Thomas SCOTUS majority have discarded precedent as a predictable or even a strong influence on their rulings...) IMO, what is determined in a ruling in one circuit is not necessarily recognized in any other. Applicable law can be contradictory in geographical areas depending on Circuit Court jurisdictions.
This site has links to every relevant Federal Circuit court "input" and individual state and DC shield laws and precedents,
www.rcfp.org
Examples,
Learn more about journalists' right not to be compelled to testify or disclose sources and information in court in your state or circuit.
www.rcfp.org
“...New York's Shield Law provides journalists an absolute privilege from testifying with regard to news obtained under a promise of confidentiality but only a qualified privilege with regard to news that is both unpublished and not obtained under a promise of confidentiality.”
Baker v. Goldman Sachs & Co., 669 F.3d 105, 107 (2d Cir. 2012);
see New York Civil Rights Law § 79-h. For more information,
see New York Privilege Compendium,
Section II.A.
The Second Circuit does not appear to have examined the Connecticut shield law statute, which came into law in 2006, and is codified at Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 52-146t. For more information,
see Connecticut Privilege Compendium, Section II.A.
The Second Circuit also does not appear to have examined the Vermont shield law statute, which came into law in 2017, and is codified at Vt. Stat. 12, § 1615. For more information,
see Vermont Privilege Compendium,
Section II.A. .."
Learn more about journalists' right not to be compelled to testify or disclose sources and information in court in your state or circuit.
www.rcfp.org
