EFF to Fifth Circuit: The First Amendment Protects the Right to Make Jokes on Social Media

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to free expression and prohibits the government from "abridging the freedom of speech."This includes protecting an individual's right to make jokes online-even bad or offensive jokes, as well as jokes about the police.TechFreedom and EFF have thus filed an  amicus brief asking a federal appellate court in Louisiana, to reaffirm this basic principle after the police arrested Waylon Bailey for  posting a joke at their expense on his Facebook account.

Read at Electronic Frontier Foundation