Is free speech in jeopardy in the United States?
How Will Trump Change Media? Here Are Potential Losers And Winners
by David Lieberman
November 9, 2016 11:36am
http://deadline.com/2016/11/how-will-trump-victory-affect-media-companies-winners-losers-1201851613/
"Like many people, media moguls today are trying to figure out how their worlds will change following Donald Trump’s unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election."
Commentary: Free speech has been very good to Donald Trump
by Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View
"f only those First Amendment people could do something about Donald Trump. His latest attack on their sacred cow is the assertion that "It is not 'freedom of the press' when newspapers and others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even if it is completely false!"That's wrong as a matter of constitutional law. But it's not crazy. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently accorded a high degree of protection to falsehoods. And the kinds of justices that the Republican presidential nominee might appoint could well reverse it.
The landmark case for the constitutional protection of lies and the lying liars who tell them was decided in 2012. It involved a prosecution under the Stolen Valor Act, a federal statute that made it a crime to say you have military medals you never earned — and bigger crime to claim falsely to have received the Medal of Honor"
"Alito was right — there's something radical about protecting falsehood as closely as truth. But that radicalism lies at the heart of the First Amendment: enabling truth to emerge through the free exchange of ideas. Falsehoods are part of the process whereby the truth comes to be defined and understood.
Free speech has been very good to Donald Trump, enabling him to appeal to Russian hackers and "Second Amendment people" and generally to say whatever is on his mind. It would be nice if he reciprocated the favors the First Amendment has done for him."
Bloomberg View
Heads up, your free speech may be in jeopardy
by Karrie Comfort, Contributing Writer
November 9, 2016
http://www.daily49er.com/opinion/2016/11/09/heads-up-your-free-speech-may-be-in-jeopardy/
