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Arkansas to Outlaw Street Photography ... potentially worldwide
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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 434206" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>If that does get passed into law, there is no way in Hell that it will survive the very first time it is challenged in court.</p><p></p><p> Aside from the very obvious First Amendment issues, it also amounts to an attempt by the state to regulate activity that takes place outside of its jurisdiction. There is no way any competent court will uphold that.</p><p></p><p> A state can only regulate activity that is confined within the borders of that state. It appears that this bill would attempt to claim jurisdiction over photographs taken outside of the state, by people who are not residents of the state, of people who are not residents of the state, and posted to social media sites that are based outside of the state; on the basis that they can then be viewed over the Internet, on those social media sites, from within the state. The resulting images have to cross the state's border before they even come into the state. That makes it interstate commerce, and if there was any authority to impose any legal restrictions, that authority would have to belong exclusively to the federal government.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 434206, member: 16749"] If that does get passed into law, there is no way in Hell that it will survive the very first time it is challenged in court. Aside from the very obvious First Amendment issues, it also amounts to an attempt by the state to regulate activity that takes place outside of its jurisdiction. There is no way any competent court will uphold that. A state can only regulate activity that is confined within the borders of that state. It appears that this bill would attempt to claim jurisdiction over photographs taken outside of the state, by people who are not residents of the state, of people who are not residents of the state, and posted to social media sites that are based outside of the state; on the basis that they can then be viewed over the Internet, on those social media sites, from within the state. The resulting images have to cross the state's border before they even come into the state. That makes it interstate commerce, and if there was any authority to impose any legal restrictions, that authority would have to belong exclusively to the federal government. [/QUOTE]
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