Should that request include the right of association, especially for corporations that run social interaction networks (e.g., Twitter)? If so, keep in mind that you’d be saying Twitter should be forced to host any legally protected speech — including porn, spam, and White supremacist propaganda — regardless of whether Twitter admins want that speech on Twitter.
As always when this comes up I am perfectly happy to buy the argument that the government imposing controls over what ISP's can do on the network is a first amendment violation the second those ISP's agree to be held responsible for all of that content that they are trying to claim is theirs.
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Generally, suit for an improper claim of copyright should automatically subject the plaintiff to penalties at least as severe as the penalties for the corresponding infringement. After all, the fraudulent claim of copyright is an attempt to steal from the public.
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That hasn't stopped them from aggressively abusing the 1A argument constantly to see if it sticks anyway. Verizon has argued it has a First Amendment right to hand your call data over to the government. Comcast has argued its First Amendment rights were violated when it was told to stop blocking competing channels' access to its cable lineup.
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Generally, suit for an improper claim of copyright should automatically subject the plaintiff to penalties at least as severe as the penalties for the corresponding infringement. After all, the fraudulent claim of copyright is an attempt to steal from the public.
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That hasn't stopped them from aggressively abusing the 1A argument constantly to see if it sticks anyway. Verizon has argued it has a First Amendment right to hand your call data over to the government. Comcast has argued its First Amendment rights were violated when it was told to stop blocking competing channels' access to its cable lineup.
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