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[Krodwhodat]

@superchuck500 give me a rundown on this type of law and freedom of speech?

Florida man arrested for refusing to remove vulgar sticker: 'They're just words' — Fox News

A Florida man was arrested over the weekend for refusing to take down a sticker from his vehicle's window that crudely described a person's sexual appetites.

apple.news

 

[Waymer]

The usual incident occurs with bumper stickers that contain profane language or pictures. For example, in 1999, a Florida woman was cited for her sticker, “fork you, you forking fork.” The charges against Laura Elizabeth Barron were eventually dropped.

https://www.freedomforuminstitute.o...l-public-expression-overview/bumper-stickers/

I'll let the lawyers here settle this one, but I assume at one point this will get dropped or thrown out. Whether it ultimately could stand a constitutional challenge, again, I'll let the lawyers have their say.

 

[superchuck500]

@superchuck500 give me a rundown on this type of law and freedom of speech?

Florida man arrested for refusing to remove vulgar sticker: 'They're just words' — Fox News

A Florida man was arrested over the weekend for refusing to take down a sticker from his vehicle's window that crudely described a person's sexual appetites.

apple.news

Without doing any updated research, I think that purely vulgar speech is not protected from regulation for use in public (such as a bumper sticker). Where the speech uses profanity but makes an underlying expression that is more conventionally protected by the First Amendment, that can be different. So for instance a "fork Democrats!" bumper sticker is probably protected speech. But "I like to fork!" is not. This seems to be more like the latter than the former.

EDIT - Waymer's post might suggest otherwise. I don't know the full nuances in this area. Would have to do some reading.

 

[zeetes]

wait... am i reading it right? the sticker says “i eat a__”?

 

[Sandman]

wait... am i reading it right? the sticker says “i eat a__”?

Arms?

 

[FL_Saint]

Not the worst I have seen down here. Still dumb.

 

[zeetes]

Arms?

ahh

 

[BlackandGoldXLIV]

wait... am i reading it right? the sticker says “i eat a__”?

Arugula?