help for struggling law student

[historian]

to you kind people out there - i am doing a study on the internet and censorship in china. I want to find anything to do with chinese law and possible infraction of the first amendment. does anyone know of any forum i can find information in? Ive tried westlaw but its too new a subject to really find a precedents of significance ( i think)
thanks to all

[babylonsister]

1. Try googling; lots on it there. Here's a link~

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Chinese+censorship+%2B+law&btnG=Google+Search

[flyingfysh]

2. what does the First Amendment have to do with Chinese law?

The First Amendment is an American law, and applies nowhere else.

[seriousstan]

3. Maybe that is why this "law student" is struggling. Soon to be "challenged" I'd expect.

How my first amendment rights extend past the US is beyond me. Freedom of speech is not the right to be heard.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Yup. This whole situation doesn't sound plausible in the least.

[historian]

6. well

if the internet is not proprietory (no one owns it though the technology used to make it run is) then any interference by other countries to block its use would infringe on the 1st amendment here and invite retaliatory action ( i think)

[seriousstan]

8. The first amendment has nothing to do with the freedom to be heard or to hear.

Where are you studying law? You are being poorly served. You have no right to be heard. You may print your opinions on paper or online, but there is no right to have people either read your book or post. My ISP does not have to carry you opinions and at the same time that doesn't impact your right, in the USA, to post your opinions.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Yah - I hear that law students study proprietory things a lot.

:rofl:

[TomClash]

5. Try IFEX first

Maybe Westlaw. lexis, the ABA website.

It's a violation of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - not the First Amendment, which only applies in the United States.

[historian]

7. oops

yes you're right sorry - first year student angst

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. they could be taking International Law or Comparative Law.

I took comparative law. It was about the statutes in other countries that are not nearly as specific as ours. The judges have more discretion and it is a different approach.

[TomClash]

11. Good luck nt

[liberalhistorian]

12. Ummm.........with all due respect, are you sure you're

really a law student, or are you just pulling our leg? Something tells me it's the latter..........

As a paralegal, I've met some not-so-with-it law students and even worked with some attorneys who were a few sandwiches short of a full picnic. But I don't think even any of them would have asked this question, not even a first-year law student.