Comments on: The Fourth Circuit – You can go to prison for distributing (very creepy) fiction http://www.thekaiserlawfirm.com/2009/06/the-fourth-circuit-you-can-go-to-prison-for-distributing-very-creepy-fiction/ Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer in Washington DC and Maryland Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chip Rood http://www.thekaiserlawfirm.com/2009/06/the-fourth-circuit-you-can-go-to-prison-for-distributing-very-creepy-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Chip Rood Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:26:57 +0000 http://test.thekaiserlawfirm.com/wp/?p=185#comment-14 I am definitely on the side of the First Amendment. Email is a personal communication and is not released to the public view, as is Facebook, MySpace, or other similar social sites. Being a personal correspondence, and not in the public view, it should absolutely covered by the First Amendment. Full Disclosure: I am a book publisher and take the First very, very seriously. Once you start to tinker with it, it is hard to know when to stop. I am definitely on the side of the First Amendment. Email is a personal communication and is not released to the public view, as is Facebook, MySpace, or other similar social sites. Being a personal correspondence, and not in the public view, it should absolutely covered by the First Amendment.

Full Disclosure: I am a book publisher and take the First very, very seriously. Once you start to tinker with it, it is hard to know when to stop.

]]> By: Chris Shea http://www.thekaiserlawfirm.com/2009/06/the-fourth-circuit-you-can-go-to-prison-for-distributing-very-creepy-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Chris Shea Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:29 +0000 http://test.thekaiserlawfirm.com/wp/?p=185#comment-9 It seems odd for the First Amendment to require talent for its protections to come into play: Lolita is plenty graphic enough to qualify as obscene; Nabokov just used Latinate words for things that sad Mr. Whorely probably typed very literally and in a cliched way. It seems odd for the First Amendment to require talent for its protections to come into play: Lolita is plenty graphic enough to qualify as obscene; Nabokov just used Latinate words for things that sad Mr. Whorely probably typed very literally and in a cliched way.

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