A look at how free speech is and has been treated in the United States. This film looks at various cases of free speech being prosecuted on the left and right. It brings into focus that speech you don’t like still needs to be protected.
Though I have to say that lies masquerading as free speech shouldn’t be protected and opinion masquerading as news is the worst affront to this important tenant of the Bill of Rights. And now I step off my soap box. The film doesn’t touch on this, it is just a hot topic for me lately.
A documentary look at the changing interpretations of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution – laws and court cases that have alternatively broadened and narrowed the amendment’s protection of free speech and assembly. The film’s thesis is that post-9/11 the government has seized unprecedented license to surveil, intimidate, arrest, and detain citizens and foreigners alike. The film also looks back to the Pentagon Papers’ case and compares it to cases since 9/11 dealing with high school students’ speech and protesters marching in New York City during the 2004 Republican convention. Comment comes from a range of scholars, pundits, and advocates.
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