Supreme Court pick: ISPs have First Amendment right to block websites

Re:Supreme Court pick: ISPs have First Amendment right to bl... by tinalumfoil on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @07:30PM (#17503114)

While I don't agree with Kavanaugh in this case, the legal reality is corporations are just as protected by the first amendment as any person. If they weren't, we couldn't have things like a free press. Painting this view as strictly Republican is painting everyone who's not Republican as at odds with the constitution.

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Re:Supreme Court pick: ISPs have First Amendment right to bl... by mmt on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @09:57PM (#17503858)

> If they weren't, we couldn't have things like a free press.

We could still have a free press, since "the press" is explicitly mentioned in the First Amendment. Whether things that resemble a free press (if that's what you meant by "like") are desirable, is another matter.

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Re:Supreme Court pick: ISPs have First Amendment right to bl... by timoth3y on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @12:03AM (#17504397)

> the legal reality is corporations are just as protected by the first amendment as any person

That's not the case. There have always been restrictions on commercial speech that are not allowed towards individual speech. For example, it is completely acceptable to restrict commercial speech based on content.

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