Re: Do government employees have freedom of speech?

Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:

At 8:53 PM -0800 4/23/97, Bill Frantz wrote:

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I guess I have to defend my view. In general, people on this list believe that freedom of speech includes the freedom to lie. (I seem to remember having an exchange with Tim on the subject of truth in commercial speech a year or so ago.)

I don't recall that. In any case, I am not arguing that the government has any responsibility to stop lying, per se, I am saying that _employees_ of the U.S. Justice or Treasury or State or Defense Departments are no more free to "say whatever they wish" as employees of Apple or Intel or Sun are.

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