CNN.com - Internet firm sues to broadcast McVeigh execution - April 5, 2001

[Declan McCullagh]

Bah. I would rather argue that the execution is the government's
free speech at work, and it should have the right to say it in
whatever way it wants. :)

-Declan

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:45:43PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> > Logically, it is only your speech if you can stop "saying" it
> > at any time. I doubt he could stop his execution by asking nicely.
> 
> But he's under coercion. Legitimate or not, that changes the rules of the
> game. He's the accussed. He can elect others to speak for him in
> situations where he can't speak for himself.
> 
> Your thesis breaks down into,
> 
> Your right to speak exists only so long as you can willingly stop/start
> it. So by logical extension, the suppression of speech in a 'control
> economy' culture such as the ex-CCCP is justified. That in fact, once one
> looses the freedom of speech they may in fact never LEGITIMATELY regain
> it. That the 'choice' is constrained is an irrelevant factor.
> 
> Foo.
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