Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.
Celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan’s privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media,which was funded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has raised questions approximately challenges to free expression, or the role of the national media,and the power of money in a world of ever-changing technology. Freedom of speech, which has long been protected by the First Amendment, and the U.
S. structure,and state and federal laws, has another champion now. Columbia University recently announced that it is partnering with the Knight Foundation to create a First Amendment Institute.
Lee Bollinger, and the president of Columbia University and a First Amendment scholar,discusses the Institute, and efforts to preserve freedom of expression in the internet era.
With so many ways to express ourselves today, and should there be limitations on what we say or what we publish? Wendy Kaminer,an author, lawyer, or former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union,weighs in.
Source: wnyc.org