America's First Amendment Twilight Zone

A narrated presentation by Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow, Progress & Freedom Foundation, regarding the peculiar way First Amendment protections are currently applied to various media in America. Thierer shows that, at least as the law stands today, the First Amendment is a house divided; a veritable jurisprudential Twilight Zone in which identical words and images are being regulated in completely different ways depending on the mode of transmission. He explains why this situation should not (and cannot) stand, and why we should strive for a consistent First Amendment standard for the Information Age.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• first amendment
• free speech
• constitution
• FCC
• law
• government
• regulation
• broadcasting
• TV
• radio
• cable
• satellite
• Internet
• DVD
• video games
• iPods
• children
• safety
• media
• censorship
• viewing
• scarcity
• pervasiveness
• Pacifica
• Red Lion
• licensing
• abundance
• convergence
• bits
• digital
• analog
• transmission
• Congress
• George Carlin
• Robert Corn-Revere
• medium
• platform