Does the first amendment protect all forms of speech?

Answer 1

Not all speech is protected by the First Amendment. Speech that creates a clear and present danger to the public may be controlled. The classic examples are shouting Fire in a crowded theater or publishing times and locations of troop ship movements in time of war. In addition, speech amounting to slander or libel is not protected. I would add that revealing government classified data under certain circumstances may result in a charge of treason, and thus is not protected.

Answer 2

No. But certainly closer under United States law than you're going to get anywhere else among the G-8.

The most pervasive limitation on complete freedom of speech under American law is the time-place-manner restriction. Essentially, it holds that if a restraint on free speech does not foreclose all or any other modes of delivering the speech, time-place-manner restrictions may be, and often are, constitutional.

Compare this to the prior restraint. A prior restraint is where government outlaws or criminalizes free speech prospectively, and narrowly in terms of its definition--that is, before it has even occurred. Prior restraints are almost always unconstitutional.

And no, Motion Picture Association of America ratings are not deemed to function as prior restraints. One, MPAA ratings are not imposed by government (the industry self-regulates); and two, MPAA ratings are applied after the MPAA has evaluated a movie's content; and three, Hollywood has demonstrated these do not have any significant chilling effects on true, artistically-sound, free speech. The current values of the community are reflected in the people within the MPAA reviewing movies and making their recommendations holistically rather than the mechanical application of black-letter regulations. The application of current values tends to mean that it takes a lot of gratuitous sex, gratuitous full-frontal nudity and gratuitous violence to shift a 'R' rating to 'NC-17'. That said, Howard Stern had to migrate from terrestrial radio and the public airwaves to the subscription-based context of satellite radio in order to avoid the further wrath of the Federal Communications Commission. Similarly, you have to pay to get into the theater to see a movie. MPAA ratings are more of a courtesy the industry extends, rather than regulation.

Commercial speech, fighting words and obscenity tend to receive graduatedly lower levels of constitutional protection in U.S. Constitutional Law than other types of speech. Obscenity least of all.

Symbolic-acts speech, such as draft-card burning, have been held to constitute protected speech.

First-amendment or free-speech Constitutional Law is among the most widespread of Supreme Court decisional law.

Answer 3

Freedom of speech is a protected right afforded by the United States Constitution for citizens. There are some restrictions including speech that incites lawless action.

Answer 4

no because the people that do speech about hate most of the time get money off it!! also no one has gone or done anything to them!!

Answer 5

Pure Speech, Commercial Speech, and Symbolic Speech are protected by the First Amendment.

Answer 6

any speech that does not hinder the rights of others is protected.

Answer 7

Yes the Freedom of Speech was guaranteed by the First

Amendment.

Answer 8

Yes, as long as this speech does not cause immediate panic or turmoil when there is no threat. (For example: You cannot shout "Fire!!" in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire.)

Answer 9

most political speech