Free Speech...Really?

Text of the First Amendment.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

In an interview on NPR, Eric Holder made these comments regarding the First Amendment. Here's the text of his remarks.

"The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is gonna be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at." - May 28, 1999 NPR Morning Edition

(His statement is incorrect. Child pornography, for instance, is illegal regardless of the medium.)

Now that he's Attorney General of the United States, does he still want to restrict speech on the Internet? If it could be restricted there, why not restrict it in print? Twitter didn't exist at the time of he made those remarks. How would he propose to regulate it? Between having some Democrat Senators call for a return of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" and the new AG's apparent attitude toward speech on the Internet, we better keep a close watch on our rights enumerated in the First Amendment .