JOUR 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 77: Prior Restraint, Intangible Property
19 Aug 2020
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When the government destroys someone"s speech or creative works, it violates protections of free speech and free speech. These protections are the core of our democratic civil rights protections. When a private person destroys other people"s works, these protections are more ambiguous. There are plenty of fictional counterparts for destroying private speech. This isn"t always through the perspective of science fiction writing. The author has the nightmare of their writing being destroyed and this has been seen through some literature written by the authors afraid of this happening. In these circumstances, fictional authors lost what they had created and the only copy of it was destroyed, making it unable to be shared with others. This was intended to inflict pain on the writer and hurt them. But it"s also a final act that deprives others from the person"s thoughts and ideas. This is private censorship which hasn"t been considered by constitutional provisions protecting its people form the government doing it.
