It claims that somehow speech on computer networks is different from other forms of speech. Of course, the university doesn't see it this way. Prior restraint, Hughes wrote, is clearly a violation of the First Amendment. In striking down the Minnesota law, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote that the law was unconstitutional because it went beyond punishing the Saturday Press the law constituted censorship. Near and Howard Guilford, the paper's publishers, couldn't publish again unless they convinced a court they wouldn't engage in similar conduct. Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota law that allowed courts to issue restraining orders against publications that were judged to be "public nuisances." Four years earlier a Minnesota district court had enjoined publication of the Saturday Press, a small weekly Minneapolis newspaper that had attacked officials in city It has wrapped duct tape around his mouth, effectively engaging in prior restraint of his First Amendment right to free speech. The university has gone beyond punishing Belanger's threatening conduct. What the attorney general's office is seeking and what the university has already done is troubling. UMaine conduct officer Bill Kennedy has already barred Belanger from using the system. The state wants to restrict Belanger's access to FirstClass, leaving it up to the university to decide when - if ever - he can go back online. The student had taken offense to Belanger's resume on FirstClass, in which Belanger said he disliked "fags," and posted it to four discussion groups without Belanger's The attorney general's office is seeking a permanent injunction against Belanger after he threatened to shoot a student in the head. Last week's filing of a civil rights lawsuit by the state against University of Maine student Casey Belanger for threatening another student on FirstClass raises concerns for how the First Amendment relates to computer networks. Computer speech no different from other speech By Ryan Robbins
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