- Yasser Latif Hamdani Holding a political or religious opinion or criticising a religion etc should be protected but this film is not protected in my view... to quote Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire 315 U.S. 568 where the US supreme court ruled : "There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality." This in my view fits the test.
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Showing posts with label free expression. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
A discussion on whether the anti-Muslim film is protected under first amendment rights
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