Event organizers owe the city the usual detailed safety and security plans as part of the permit process, and may now need to wall off their core areas. However, according to Wikipedia, the best deterrent to these is the installation of barrier blocks, which can be rented for $6.38 each a day, not extra officers. The threat of vehicle-ramming attacks is real and significant. I read with alarm of the cancellation of festivals and parades in St. But first, understand what it says, so that you can determine what is really going on and distinguish reality from “fake news.” It is the document that provides for a checks-and-balances system that prevents tyrants from taking control of your body, property, and soul.
This is true regardless of your views on the original state legislation, whether Disney should have expressed any view of it, or the legitimacy of Disney’s special status. Instead, it is presented as a story about parental rights, or about whether Disney has become a “woke” company, etc., etc. But in contrast to the Twitter story, it is NOT being discussed, for the most part, as a First Amendment matter.
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This story directly implicates the First Amendment, unlike the Twitter story, since it is the state government punishing the corporation, which has free speech rights, for expressing its views. 2: The Florida legislature revokes the special status of Disneyworld, in retaliation for Disney’s exercise of free speech in opposing the state law prohibiting discussions of sexual preference in public elementary schools. Twitter is not a state-owned or -controlled entity.Įvent No. By the same token, what Twitter does in this regard can’t be “censorship.” That is a term for what the government is prohibited from doing under the First Amendment. No government is telling Twitter what it can or can’t include or exclude from its platform. It has nothing to do with free speech, since there is no federal or state government involvement. But it is being talked about in mainstream media, and by otherwise intelligent people, as a “free speech” story. There is nothing particularly remarkable about this story other than its magnitude, since rich guys buy companies every day of the week. Through the incorporation doctrine, this applies to state legislatures as well as the U.S. The First Amendment says in part that “Congress shall make no law … abridging freedom of speech …”. Two unrelated current events illustrate the importance of knowing what’s in our Constitution.