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by JohnHaugeland
1407 days ago
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Remember when I said > or a misrepresentation of Marilyn Hall's decision that code is speech somehow means code is free speech Predictably, you referenced Marilyn Hall's decision that code is speech, and misrepresented it as support that code is free speech Literally exactly what I said you would do |
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Do you disagree with the widespread reporting on the outcome of this case?
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bernstein-vs-the-US-Departm...
> Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State, landmark legal decision (1996) that set two important precedents in the field of digital technology. First, it ruled that U.S. government regulations that barred the export of encryption software were unconstitutionally restrictive; second, it declared that software source code can be a form of protected free speech.
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https://casetext.com/case/bernstein-v-united-states-dept-of-...
> The district court found that the Source Code was speech protected by the First Amendment, see Bernstein v. Department of State, 922 F. Supp. 1426 (N.D. Cal. 1996) ("Bernstein I")