Right to Communicate
Those incarcerated for murder, i.e. permanently, have no right to
communicate with anyone besides a lawyer in his official capacity, and
other permanent inmates. No one has a right to communicate with a
convicted murderer, and in general such communication is forbidden.
No one currently incarcerated has a right to privacy or anonymity in
communications. Aside from these exceptions, the following apply
universally.
No law can interfere in the content of communications of any sort,
regardless of audience and technology, except according to contractual
obligations, and as restricted by the
§ Criminal Incitement Prohibition and § False Incitement Prohibition,
in § Libel, in § Right to Secrecy, in § State Secrets, and
as set forth below under § Radio Broadcast.
No law can forbid enterprise in systems and technologies which provide
for anonymous speech or communication, or differentiate them legally
from systems and technologies that do not provide for anonymous speech
or communication.
No law can forbid enterprise in systems and technologies which
facilitate the detection, reception, decoding, and/or presentation of
electromagnetic (including optical), acoustical, mechanical, or other
signals, or differentiate them legally from systems and technologies
that do not provide for such detection, reception, decoding, and/or
presentation.
No law can interfere with enterprise in communications systems which
do not consume contentious resources, except for zoning and
environmental law as explained below. Specifically, the state must
not involve itself in the private design and deployment of cabled or
directed-beam communications. This freedom must not be construed to
imply unrestricted freedom to build towers and beam injurious
radiation; that is, zoning law and environmental law regulate in
practice certain techniques of otherwise non-contentious
communications.
It is unlawful to deliberately sabotage the free expression of another
through any means, for example by shouting or through RF
interference. Furthermore, such interference through negligence must
be immediately ceased upon notification and request, and repetition of
the interference under similar circumstances is construed as
deliberate.
No law can interfere with the right of private citizens, not otherwise
bound by contract, to communicate and associate freely with all
people of the world, or to refrain from communication and
association.
People not able to set up telecommunications access by reason of
temporary incarceration must be supplied with the means of
connectivity, as a shared resource in common areas, and personal
equipment if so desired; for personal equipment, the incarcerated
individual must pay for the service directly. The cost of common-area
communications equipment, like all costs in all prisons, are covered
by the inmates either by direct payment or through the assumption of
debt.
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