NEWS 409 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Federal Communications Commission, Pacifica Foundation, Symbolic Speech
28 Jan 2019
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A socialist mailed pamphlets to men urging them to escape the draft. The court compared his actions to falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater, deeming his speech a threat to national security. A junior high boy gave a speech at a school assembly containing sexual innuendo and got punished. The sc sided with the school, arguing high schools had the right to censor/punish vulgar or offensive speech. Student speech in k-12 can be regulated/censored if it is outside socially appropriate behavior. An afternoon radio broadcast of george carlin"s monologue 7 dirty words began a legal battle over the ability of a government agency to sanction (punish) radio stations for airing offensive speech. Supreme court sided with the fcc, arguing that limited sanctions against a radio station for airing offensive speech are ok, but context matters. The sc sided with the kkk member who held a cross-burning rally.
