so, just like the jehovah s witnesses in 1943, the consequences are stark. barnett held that people, including young students, could not be forced to say what was not in their minds. a concept we today called the rule against compelled speech. the court emphasized the constitutional limits on the state s coercive power, which exercised by, quote, village tyrants or by the federal government. and it underscored that the first amendment was designed to protect noncon officialists of all stripes them court particularly focused on schools because the case involved two elementary school girls. it said because schools are educating the young for citizenship they must scrupulously protect individual rights. if wire not to strangle the free mind at its source and to teach youth to discount important principles of government as mere platitudes. you can watch this and other programs online at book of the doering booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] book
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earn a living, it s why i have my friends, maybe why i have my wife. sunday night on c-span s q&a. now internet activist and blogger ethan zuckerman talks about civic participation and the role technology has in shaping social norms. he spoke to students at rice university in houston, this is an hour and 20 minutes. so for the past few months now we have been looking at online mnts, digital platforms such as facebook, google maps, which our social lives have grown increasingly familiar but are also invading our academic lives. we can public widely, collaborate across time and space, teach thousands at once and so on. but it has become clear that the same machines can take advantage of us. they make us work without us knowing, judge us in directions we don t necessarily want to go, et cetera. tonight we get the chance to hear about these machines from someone who knows a great deal about them and has written a digital book about this world we live in. ethan zuckerman is
about an administration official was invited to testify but is not expected to attend. watch that hearing live here on c-span3. the house homeland subcommittee looks at risk that could occur from resuming air travel to cuba live here on c-span3. this sunday night on q&a vanity fair columnist and slate magazine founder michael kensly talks about his new book old age, a beginner s guide on living with parkinson s disease. parkparkinson s is a brain disease. i obviously meant obviously thinking, is it going to affect my thinking, how i earn a living. so that became pretty important and i asked this neurologist what s going to happen? and he says he was trying to tell me it wasn t such a big deal. he said you may lose your edge, as if that was just nothing. i thought, gee, my edge is how i earn a living, it s why i have my friends, maybe why i have my wife. sunday night on c-span s q&a. now internet activist and blogger ethan zuckerman talks about civic participation