Unprotected Speech from Outside the US

by Charles Platt

Send a drunken email from the UK to the White House, calling the president a prick, and you’re banned from the United States for life. Or so it says here.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 at 12:44 pm and is filed under censorship, Civil Liberties, First Amendment, guest blog, obscenity, politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to Unprotected Speech from Outside the US

  1. Robert C says:
    September 14, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    It’s hard to judge without reading the actual e-mail, obviously, but it sounds like it was more than just calling the POTUS a prick.

  2. Darren says:
    September 16, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    Isn’t the Sun a tabloid?

  3. charles platt says:
    September 16, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Yes. Do you really think there is a significant difference in this point between The Sun and, say, The Times? Do you imagine that The Sun makes up news?