Dethroning the King

" There are lots of web sites dedicated to honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. But if you go to Google or another search engine there's another site that comes up Mark Martin king dot org. It's not preaching tolerance instead it's dedicated to promoting hate. As you can imagine the King Family is not happy about it for illegal lynch is now we turn to attorney Jonas billboard John good to see a long time mostly. -- what is that it's our pleasure to have you hey look at this is really anti you have you have the King Family upset because there's this web site out there. The Google you know you did right and Martin Luther King in this web site won't pop up we find out its run by the kkk."

" Yeah and it's pretty disgusting I don't blame the family for being upset but there are two issues here Brian why is. -- storm front which is the name of this white supremacist group. Can they use the domain name Martin Luther King dot org and still are they allowed to publish the actual content of their website. When -- the family decides to still look. I think they will -- window and lose how would they hadn't. I think -- could win in forcing storm front to stop using Martin Luther King dot org and the reason is it's is so confusing really similar to Martin Luther King Jr. obviously that under this cyber squatting laws which is a federal body of -- them the King Family would probably get the right to have the name back OK that's step one. Step two would just probably even more important though is the content of the website it is disgusting it promotes hate it said the bunch of things which. Historically most of the snow to not be true. Then however the First Amendment will probably protect storm front and allow them just to post what ever they want. On their website no matter what they decide to call it is isn't it true that you can't defame a dead person. It's true and that's the biggest hurdle for the King Family you know the First Amendment protects us for being defamed when we are alive once word dead. You know it's it's off there and that's really unfortunate didn't say anything you want about somebody who is no longer living. Even if it's malicious or bio which is what this group is doing and the -- won't have that thing legally to say about it this way."

" It goes back to this problematic thing we you know we in journalism we we embrace it this idea of freedom of speech and that should be there's -- protected and and then and what we're talking about things that inform the public. Sadly though all speech and even unpopular speech is protected under our constitution is that."

" Most of it -- there are certain very small exception is obscenity. And fighting words and unfortunately what they hateful things that they have on this let's -- probably don't rise to the level of those those exceptions and they'll be allowed to continue. Very unfortunate John good to see you thank you very much your healthy -- look."