{"id":29020,"date":"2012-08-07T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/at-the-risk-of-siding-with-facebook-on-something.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:27:52","slug":"at-the-risk-of-siding-with-facebook-on-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/at-the-risk-of-siding-with-facebook-on-something.html","title":{"rendered":"At the risk of siding with Facebook on something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or maybe I&#39;ll just say I&#39;m siding with the ACLU. \u00a0Clicking a &quot;Like&quot; button is <i><b>of course<\/b><\/i> an expression of free speech, of opinion. \u00a0(Ditto for a &quot;+1&quot; in Google Plus, starring something in Twitter, etc.) \u00a0That a federal judge thought otherwise is just plain goofy. \u00a0And dangerously so.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aclu.org%2Ffiles%2Fblog_images%2Ffb-like.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-speech-technology-and-liberty\/aclu-facebook-tell-appeals-court-free-speech'>ACLU &amp; Facebook Tell Appeals Court That \u201cLike\u201d Is Free Speech<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLast night, the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief in an appeal of a federal judge\u2019s ruling in May that \u201cliking\u201d something on Facebook is not speech protected by the First Amendment. In the case, &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/emqZHRcEFB7' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or maybe I&#39;ll just say I&#39;m siding with the ACLU. \u00a0Clicking a &quot;Like&quot; button is of course an expression of free speech, of opinion. \u00a0(Ditto for a &quot;+1&quot; in Google Plus, starring something in Twitter, etc.) \u00a0That a federal judge thought otherwise is just plain goofy. \u00a0And dangerously so. Embedded Link ACLU &amp; Facebook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/at-the-risk-of-siding-with-facebook-on-something.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the risk of siding with Facebook on something&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32642,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/free-speech-is-free-speech-like-it-or-not.html","url_meta":{"origin":29020,"position":0},"title":"Free speech is free speech, like it or not","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Feb-13 9:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Though courts have ruled that students' constitutional rights can be somewhat abridged while on campus, and it's a sometimes fuzzy line, generally the burden is on the school to demonstrate the necessity and any restriction must be even-handed (if you're going to allow social or political advocacy speech on t-shirts,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26850,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/the-aclu-on-holders-targeted-killing-program-speech.html","url_meta":{"origin":29020,"position":1},"title":"The ACLU on Holder&#39;s &quot;Targeted Killing Program&quot; speech","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Mar-12 3:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Money graf: \"Few things are as dangerous to American liberty as the proposition that the government should be able to kill citizens anywhere in the world on the basis of legal standards and evidence that are never submitted to a court, either before or after the fact. 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