Name: アメリカの新聞検閲：この有名なアドバイスコラムニストは犯罪者なのか？ (Newspaper Censorship in America: Is this Celebrated Advice Columnist a Criminal?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:55:35.000Z
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Okay, free speech pop quiz: can the government throw Dear Abby in jail?

Or ban Doctor Phil from TV just for giving advice?

If you said no, congrats, you understand the First Amendment.

But if you said yes, then you might be the Kentucky Attorney General.

Here's the deal. John Rosemond is a North Carolina family psychologist,

he has written a popular advice column on parenting that is now syndicated in

hundred newspapers. Okay, cue sinister music.

the Kentucky Attorney General sent John a letter ordering him

to stop publishing his column in Kentucky or face fines

and even jail. So what did John write in the world's freest press

that got him censored? Brace yourselves. John told some parents to take away

their slacker sons cell phone till he shapes up.

John also truthfully called himself a family psychologist

in the tag line in his column. So what's going on here? How can Kentucky possibly

a newspaper column? The problem is government licensing boards.

They're the new censors, they don't believe the First Amendment applies to them

and they're going after people just like John all across the country.

In John's case, the Kentucky Attorney General is doing the dirty work

of the state psychologist board. The board thinks that John's advice column is the

unlicensed practice of psychology because he answers personal questions

from readers. Licensing boards don't think that one-on-one advice is speech.

They think it's conduct, like filling cavities or installing pipes.

Because the government doesn't think that advice is speech, it's willing to do

absolutely crazy like ignore the First Amendment and ban a nationally

What's next Kentucky? Hard labor for Doctor Oz?

Treating advice like it isn't speech has drastic implications.

Let me demonstrate with a beautiful baby. Sometimes he's fussy at night.

Hm, well I'm a dad and it sounds to me like he's a gassy little guy.

you should try some Gripe Water and fennel. And then just pump his chubby

You bet, happy to help. You just witnessed a crime.

In 2012 the North Carolina nutritionist board came down on caveman blogger Steve

for helping people follow the paleo  diet over the Internet.

Censoring advice is unconstitutional because advice is speech protected by

That's what John and the Institute for Justice have gone to federal court

to give Kentucky a little piece of advice. Americans don't tolerate