How does slandering someone differ from 1st Amendment rights to publis

[Stan]

How does slandering someone differ from 1st Amendment rights to publishing things?

Where is that fine line? Or is there?

[Nan]

Sometimes I suspect the answer to a question like that may depend on the interpretation

of a jury!!

[Gail]

Yep- this Freedom of the Press debate used to come up periodically also regarding the "Little Sisters" lesbian bookstore which was having their imported stuff seized at the border as obscene.

Where do you draw the line between freedom and good taste? In the above example it is a line between freedom and whether one is using the freedom to promote hate.

Does freedom mean that anything goes? Should it?

[Joe_in_RP]

In Philippines if you are charged with libel they arrest you. Do you suppose the government wants to send a message to reporters?

[Dottie]

My dad used to tell us that our freedom ends where the other fellow's nose begins. But that's not a legal definition.

No matter what the USA constitution says, the words are defined by the people with long black robes who sit at a bench. And therefore, the words change their meanings with various decisions.