Tim May wrote: >Is the entire nation bound by this quashing of free speech (and the >contravention of SCOTUS cases cited by you, Greg, and others)? There are also Supreme Court decisions which support the Kirkland decision. i.e. "...if States were required to choose between keeping proprietary information to themselves and making it available without limits, States might well choose the former option. In that event, disallowing selective disclosure would lead not to more speech overall but to more secrecy and less speech." See concurrence in LAPD v. United Publishing (1999) where the Supreme Court affirmed a California law which restricted the release of information from the public record. The Supreme Court rejected the first amendment freedom of information argument. The dissemination of an SSN does not contribute an idea, there is no speech content behind it. If it advances a compelling interest, in this case individual privacy, it seems to me a pretty good idea to restrict disclosure. Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/
