The Onion's bid was supported by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting and Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit focused on ending gun violence.
Judge rejects bankruptcy sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to The Onion www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r ...
-- Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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@#3 ... The purpose of the 1st Amendment is to protect unpopular speech. ...
... from suppression by the government.
But there have been limits associated with that.
Permissible restrictions on expression
www.britannica.com
... Despite the broad freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment, there are some historically rooted exceptions. First, the government may generally restrict the time, place, or manner of speech, if the restrictions are unrelated to what the speech says and leave people with enough alternative ways of expressing their views. Thus, for instance, the government may restrict the use of loudspeakers in residential areas at night, limit all demonstrations that block traffic, or ban all picketing of people's homes.
Second, a few narrow categories of speech are not protected from government restrictions. The main such categories are incitement, defamation, fraud, obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, and threats. As the Supreme Court held in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the government may forbid "incitement""speech "directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action" and "likely to incite or produce such action" (such as a speech to a mob urging it to attack a nearby building). But speech urging action at some unspecified future time may not be forbidden.
Defamatory lies (which are called "libel" if written and "slander" if spoken), lying under oath, and fraud may also be punished. In some instances, even negligent factual errors may lead to lawsuits. Such exceptions, however, extend only to factual falsehoods; expression of opinion may not be punished even if the opinion is broadly seen as morally wrong. ...
@#5 ... murdered during Sandy Hook. ...
Here in Connecticut, today, this week, was a solemn time.
Connecticut lawmakers mark 12 years since Sandy Hook shooting
www.wtnh.com
... Connecticut's congressional delegation met with victims of gun violence on Thursday in Washington, D.C., marking 12 years since the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown.
Family members of the victims of gun violence held up photos of the loved ones they lost during a press conference.
Saturday, Dec. 14, marks 12 years since 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook. ...
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