NODE c95752b3Re: Do government employees have freedom of speech?
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:34:01 -0700 (PDT)
Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:
> At 8:53 PM -0800 4/23/97, Bill Frantz wrote:
> >I guess I have to defend my view. In general, people on this list believe
> >that freedom of speech includes the freedom to lie. (I seem to remember
> >having an exchange with Tim on the subject of truth in commercial speech a
> >year or so ago.)
>
> I don't recall that. In any case, I am not arguing that the government has
> any responsibility to stop lying, per se, I am saying that _employees_ of
> the U.S. Justice or Treasury or State or Defense Departments are no more
> free to "say whatever they wish" as employees of Apple or Intel or Sun are.
Employees of C2Net don't mind.
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