Perspective
Sep. 9, 2014
News media should draw a line, or the courts will
The publication of gruesome videos, intimate stolen photographs, and emotionally harmful, targeted speech may bring about the opposite of vigorous expression and embrace of the First Amendment. By Amy Gajda
Within the past month or so, those who clicked on the right Internet links could watch video of two beheadings, peruse purloined nude photographs of a host of Hollywood celebrities, and scroll through a trove of cruel messages about suicide aimed at Zelda Williams, Robin Williams' daughter.
Such expression, arguably, is a vindication at least in part of the First Amendment's free-wheeling marketplace of ideas: In-your-face horrific...
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