“You can sit in your mother’s basement and chat away, I don’t care,” says Lindsey Graham (R-SC) but then asks if “they [bloggers] deserve First Amendment protection?” when it comes to classified information.
J.P. Hicks
Activist Post
Activist Post
Who knew the speech of the media and bloggers wasn’t already protected?
The U.S. senate is working on a media shield law that would protect the media against government retaliation for exposing sensitive information.
I thought the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights made it quite clear that all speech was already protected:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Since the government has been on the rampage to punish whistleblowers who exposed government crimes, perhaps additional clarity is needed. However, it seems that the politicians are using the media shield law to decide who gets free speech protection and who doesn’t.