{"id":437551,"date":"2010-03-16T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1122238583.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-16T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:42:00","slug":"judge-decides-that-fake-giraffe-attack-story-is-protected-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/437551","title":{"rendered":"Judge Decides That Fake Giraffe Attack Story Is Protected Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, we were a bit concerned about a judge&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100304\/1244358419.shtml\">force offline<\/a> a satirical &#8220;news story&#8221; about a fake giraffe attack at the Global Wildlife Center in Louisiana.  Just because GWC was worried that some people might take the story seriously, it doesn&#8217;t remove the First Amendment rights of the creators of the satirical site.  Thankfully, the judge now agrees and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/bizarre\/6915046.html\" >removed the injunction and ordered GWC to pay the legal costs of the site&#8217;s creators<\/a>.  The judge noted that while the center had some concerns about how the article was viewed, it doesn&#8217;t change the fact that the content is protected free speech as satire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1122238583.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1122238583.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100316\/1122238583&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e7d392b36cda8d803d4dc1c7358aca9f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e7d392b36cda8d803d4dc1c7358aca9f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=VifPUt9VyKU:lF24NGbHGLY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=VifPUt9VyKU:lF24NGbHGLY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=VifPUt9VyKU:lF24NGbHGLY:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/VifPUt9VyKU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, we were a bit concerned about a judge&#8217;s decision to force offline a satirical &#8220;news story&#8221; about a fake giraffe attack at the Global Wildlife Center in Louisiana. Just because GWC was worried that some people might take the story seriously, it doesn&#8217;t remove the First Amendment rights of the creators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}