{"id":2787,"date":"2020-12-17T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/free-speech-and-the-first-amendment\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:39:14","slug":"free-speech-and-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/free-speech-and-the-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech and the First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The free speech clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the citizen&#39;s right to free expression from infringement <em>by the government<\/em>, not from infringement by any old entity.&#0160; My home is my castle; you have no First Amendment rights here, or at my cyber-castle, my weblog. So it is no violation of your First Amendment rights if I order you off of my property because of your offensive speech or block you from leaving stupid or vile comments at my website. It is <em>impossible in principle for me to violate your First Amendment rights<\/em>: I am not the government or an agent thereof.&#0160; And the same holds at your (private) place of work: you have no First Amendment rights there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free speech clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the citizen&#39;s right to free expression from infringement by the government, not from infringement by any old entity.&#0160; My home is my castle; you have no First Amendment rights here, or at my cyber-castle, my weblog. So it is no violation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/free-speech-and-the-first-amendment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free Speech and the First Amendment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}