{"id":11461,"date":"2011-10-04T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11461"},"modified":"2011-10-04T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T13:30:08","slug":"new-york-wants-to-rework-the-first-amendment-not-as-a-right-but-as-a-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/new-york-wants-to-rework-the-first-amendment-not-as-a-right-but-as-a-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"New York wants to rework the First Amendment “not as a right, but as a privilege”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some New York senators think you’ve got too much freedom of speech, and they think the world would be a much nicer place if you didn’t have as much<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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. . . some state Senators in NY are trying a new line of attack: going directly after the First Amendment and suggesting that current interpretations are way too broad, and it’s not really meant to protect any sort of free speech right. In fact, it sounds as though they’re trying to redefine the right to free speech into a privilege<\/em> that can be taken away. Seriously:<\/p>\n

     Proponents of a more refined First Amendment argue that this freedom should be treated not as a right but as a privilege — a special entitlement granted by the state on a conditional basis that can be revoked if it is ever abused or maltreated. <\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, that totally flips the First Amendment on its head. It is not a “more refined First Amendment.” It’s the anti-First Amendment. It suggests, by its very nature, that the government possesses the right to grant<\/em> the “privilege” of free speech to citizens… and thus the right to revoke it. That’s an astonishingly dangerous path, and one that should not be taken seriously. Of course, given their right to speak freely, state senators Jeff Klein, Diane Savino, David Carlucci and David Valesky have every right to put forth that argument — but similarly, it allows others to point out their rather scary beliefs. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some New York senators think you’ve got too much freedom of speech, and they think the world would be a much nicer place if you didn’t have as much: . . . some state Senators in NY are trying a new line of attack: going directly after the First Amendment and suggesting that current interpretations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[52,715,186,384],"class_list":["post-11461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-constitution","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-newyork"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2YR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11462,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions\/11462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}