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Deb McAlister
Personal blog · debmcalister.combusinessweb
Deb McAlister writes Marketing Where Technology Intersects Life, a personal blog at debmcalister.com about business and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers cite Deb McAlister's posts on US First Amendment limits, such as her list of speech not protected by the constitution, when discussing free-speech law in threads about leaks and legal settlements.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Deb McAlister's Blog
What Hacker News says?
Here's some details on the first amendment and what is and isnt protected under the constitution: http://debmcalister.com/2011/06/03/7-things-you-cant-claim-f... Some things not protected: 1 - Hate speech 2 - Speech that incites violence or encourages the audience to commit illegal or dangerous acts. 3 - “Material support“ to domestic or foreign terrorist groups, 4 - Public speech made in the conduct of their duties…
Comment linking /2011/06/03/7-things-you-cant-claim-first-amendment-rights-to-say/
on “I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords”Submitted Twitter Scheduling Apps: Head-to-head Click Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIts disengenious to suggest that because the government is only providing the venue whereby litigant demands hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and enforces this judgement by confiscating plantifs goods that there isn't a first ammendment interest in the case. Just as the government may not suppress the right to speech by threat of jail and direct confiscation of money it also cannot provide a venue for ot…
Comment linking /2011/06/03/7-things-you-cant-claim-first-amendment-rights-to-say/
on “Internet Pioneers Slam $750,000 Settlement for the 'Man Who Invented Email'”