document updated 17 years ago, on Nov 10, 2007
Here are some examples of sections of US Code that override the 1st amendment.
- intellectual property
- obscenity
- perjury
- Threatening the President or successors to the Presidency
- Threatening past Presidents, their families, or any Presidential Candidates
- Using postal mail to attempt to blackmail, extort, kidnap, or injure.
- Using postal mail to send information on how to do immoral acts, or on how to incite arson, murder, or assasination.
- Falsely representing oneself as an agent or representative for a 4-H club
- Threatening to interfere with commerce
- As a US Government Employee, releasing false crop reports
or false weather reports
- Using any facility of interstate commerce to incite a riot
- Committing fraud in connection with telemarketing
- Inciting rebellion or insurrection against the US or its laws
- Conspiring to overthrow the government
- Placing an advertisement for a device, and promoting it as a device to be used for communication interception
- Releasing personally identifiable information about customers of a video or tape rental store