# Billboards and the First Amendment **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524 "2021-12-04T21:56:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/81 "2021-12-13T17:50:13Z")
Freud was a bit off with his model of the mind. At least you didn’t say my mental status was the result of an imbalance of humors. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/82 "2021-12-13T18:09:08Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Freud was a bit off with his model of the mind. OK then, I’ll just say that many on the right are selfish pricks who don’t give a toss about anyone other than themselves. They’re assholes. Easier for you to grasp, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/83 "2021-12-13T19:23:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > From what I’ve seen, at least half of Americans slept through Civics. It was an Odyssey. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/84 "2021-12-13T19:26:45Z")
Ridgeline for God’s sake. This is America! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/85 "2021-12-14T00:51:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > It was an Odyssey. My insight, for clarity: more like an ourobouros voyage of self-discovery of the constitutionality of hate speech laws in accord with one’s changes of fortune in said journey. In a CR-V, of course. Oh just screw Ridgelines. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/86 "2021-12-15T19:50:16Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I wonder if the porn shop gives directions based on it. > > “Just look for the big cross, once you’ve passed it, turn right.” Yes, they did. They used to run radio ads and mentioned the cross when giving the location. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/87 "2021-12-15T20:42:40Z")
I’m not sure how that has anything to do with a basic understanding of the 1st amendment or free speech in the USA. I don’t live in Saudi Arabia but if I were commenting on the rights of those in Saudi Arabia to erect a billboard I’d at least do a five minute Google search to get a cursory understanding of the legal framework of freedom of speech in that country before opining on it. Furthermore, my comment wasn’t direct at the nebulous and general ‘you’ of internet space. It was directed at an American citizen. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524/88 "2021-12-15T20:59:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > **WHITE IS BEAUTIFUL**. Another showed a collage of a young white kid in a coffin and a comically murderous looking black guy. Then the sign read **BLACK MAN KILLS WHITE CHILD** then **WHERE’S THE FUCKING OUTRAGE?** [![](https://route-production.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/burma_006.png) ](https://route-production.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/burma_006.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboards-and-the-first-amendment/955524.md?page=4)