On Mar 2, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> And how can the court order a company to "create" something for the FBI?
>> Carol
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> Exactly.
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> Courts have previously held that software — computer code — is "speech".
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> And also that the Bill of Rights (specifically the 1st Amendment), in guaranteeing freedom of speech, also protects from any law *compelling* speech.
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> Meaning that for the government to tell Apple that they must write code for some specific goal is a violation of the Constitution.
Courts interpret laws. That's the problem here. The Supreme Court can turn a "Thou shalt not" into a "Thou must" simply by majority vote.
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