Week 5
Topic One The first amendment is always referred to as "freedom of speech". In my mind the only thing I've ever really associated the first amendment is the right to say what you want and to protest what you want. I think it's incredibly important to have the first amendment, especially in entertainment. It's on the news all the time when people exercise their first amendment in a way that garners attention, whether that's from a speech, a protest, or a release of information. Sometimes, people can get offended by someone else's use of their first amendment right, but isn't that the whole point of the amendment? That it doesn't matter if you offend someone because you're allowed to say whatever you want? This is 'Murica after all, no one can tell people what to do. Or can they? Every example that immediately came to my mind of people overstepping their bounds regarding the first amendment was political. So it got me thinking, were they re...