Fired? Speak No Evil

Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by jrockway on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:22PM (#7006629)

If this were 100 years ago, you could make the argument that by enforcing this contract, Congress made a law abridging the freedom of the press. I think that ship has sailed and failed, however, so it's too late now.

But it is interesting to think of how the Constitution can become meaningless if the government is willing to create laws to allow others to take away your Constitutional rights.

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Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by darkarmani on Friday January 03, 2014 @01:08PM (#7006946)

> If this were 100 years ago, you could make the argument that by enforcing this contract, Congress made a law abridging the freedom of the press.

That's crazy. The point of the right is that you have choice where a law takes away that choice. You can choose to sell your actions to other people for a limited set of legal actions. Why shouldn't Congress enforce contracts when BOTH parties are willing to sign?

I hate the idea of this particular clause and find it very distasteful, but I don't think it should be illegal.

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