By Stas Getmanenko. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 251.
This Comment reviews First Amendment freedom of the press through the prism of technological change brought about in the last decade. When the First Amendment secured fundamental human liberties in 1791, its main purpose was to oppose tyranny. The passage of the First Amendment was a logical extension and the culmination of the pilgrims’ escape from state-sponsored persecution. At that time, the First Amendment amounted to the triumph of liberal thought which granted people their long-sought freedoms. This Comment argues that some two hundred years after the passage of the Bill of Rights, new-age informational tactics exploit the text of the First Amendment contrary to its intent. Thus, the situation amounts to nothing less than tyranny against which the Amendment was intended to protect . . . [keep reading]