Well free speech apparently includes spending unlimited money to win elections and prayer at taxpayer expense, so we might as well throw drones on there too.
If flying camera platforms are free speech, then why wouldn't flying camera platform-killers be free speech, too? The FCPKs could fly over the surveillance drone and just trail and drop some string or wire to tangle its rotors.
Or a passive defense, like some sort of monofilament array around your home or office.
If taking pictures of an unwilling subject is free speech, then so is saying "fuck you" to whoever owns the drone.
The 1st amendment has all sorts of exceptions curtailing speech that could place people in physical harm or that violates a reasonable expectation of privacy. In my opinion, drones can do both.
@6: Did you miss my last paragraph? It could certainly be argued that banning tools that have demonstrable value to newsgathering abridges the freedom of the press.
@7: By that logic, government should be restricted from regulating the dissemination of malware, since hacking into someone's communication accounts could be useful for gathering information.
If we can regulate manned aircraft, why not drones exactly?
Free Speech Drones Drive Sales of Property Rights EM Pulse Guns
...can't wait to read the NYTimes & Washington Post decrying the use of drones to spy on their staff & publishers. When Bezos finds drones circling his home and office, tracking his every move and word, the Washington Post will champion privacy as an unalienable right...at least for the owner/investor class.
@10: Of course they can be regulated, just like airplanes and helicopters (also valuable newsgathering tools) are regulated. But an outright ban is something else entirely.
If flying camera platforms are free speech, then why wouldn't flying camera platform-killers be free speech, too? The FCPKs could fly over the surveillance drone and just trail and drop some string or wire to tangle its rotors.
Or a passive defense, like some sort of monofilament array around your home or office.
If taking pictures of an unwilling subject is free speech, then so is saying "fuck you" to whoever owns the drone.
Like freedom of the fucking press, perhaps?
But not the police without an individual warrant based on cause
If we can regulate manned aircraft, why not drones exactly?
Free Speech Drones Drive Sales of Property Rights EM Pulse Guns
...can't wait to read the NYTimes & Washington Post decrying the use of drones to spy on their staff & publishers. When Bezos finds drones circling his home and office, tracking his every move and word, the Washington Post will champion privacy as an unalienable right...at least for the owner/investor class.