• Peo­ple don’t appre­ci­ate how much the First Amend­ment pro­tects not only polit­i­cal and ide­o­log­i­cal speech, but also per­sonal nas­ti­ness and chat­ter. … If all cruel teas­ing led to sui­cide, the human race would be extinct.
• UCLA law pro­fes­sor and First Amend­ment scholar Eugene Volokh • On his crit­i­cism of cyber-bullying laws. It was an issue that reared its ugly head in a court case involv­ing a YouTube video that made fun of a middle-school aged girl. The court ruled in favor of the girl that posted it, say­ing that the school vio­lated her First Amend­ment rights by sus­pend­ing her. We totally sup­port the First Amend­ment, Eugene, but you’ve appar­ently never dealt with 14-year-old girls. Just sayin’ dude. source

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