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dballance

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10. Actually, You Have NO 1st Amendment Rights on DU
Sat Dec 22, 2012, 11:56 AM
Dec 2012

The 1st Amendment protects you from government intrusion into your free speech. You have absolutely no 1st Amendment protections on social media like Twitter or Facebook. No protections on Yahoo, Google, or any other privately owned site like DU or any of the many newspaper and magazine sites that let people post comments. They are all perfectly free to abridge your speech. Just as DU does with moderators and the jury system.

Yes, you said he "has Hitler Hair." Yes, you are quite able to make any reference which you deem fit. Just as I am able to criticize any reference you make on a public site like DU. You have enough posts here to know that not every one of your posts is going to be accepted by everyone. I know that about mine and accept it when people respond in what I think is a negative way.

Keep posting any reference you deem fit. If some one finds it sufficiently inappropriate they will alert on it. But don't get your back up so much when someone simply responds with a post you don't like.

Makes me wonder about reincarnation BainsBane Dec 2012 #1
The Face of Fear (R) Berlum Dec 2012 #2
Do we really need to/have to reference Hitler? Really? dballance Dec 2012 #3
YES... PCIntern Dec 2012 #8
Actually, You Have NO 1st Amendment Rights on DU dballance Dec 2012 #10
Yeah, well, PCIntern Dec 2012 #12
Oh, I Firmly Agree With You They're Fascist Pigs dballance Dec 2012 #13
A Hitler Reference? (*sigh*). NT WiffenPoof Dec 2012 #4
Mein Führer! I can walk! KG Dec 2012 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Bad_Ronald Dec 2012 #6
More like 1917 PADemD Dec 2012 #7
Looks like Suthren Babdiss Preachah up and down to me HillWilliam Dec 2012 #9
No he doesn't. He's not overweight enough. Fawke Em Dec 2012 #11
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