David L. Hudson Jr., a First Amendment Center research attorney, takes a good look at the legal issues surrounding this and related questions and lays out the various legal arguments that have been made and are in play.
David L. Hudson Jr., a First Amendment Center research attorney, takes a good look at the legal issues surrounding this and related questions and lays out the various legal arguments that have been made and are in play.
Just as with any other medium of communication, the regulation of blogging presents many important First Amendment issues. Only time will tell where the legal lines will be drawn on whether bloggers are journalists, when anonymous bloggers can be unmasked and when public employees can be disciplined for the content of their expression made on a blog.
