Rachel Lee Statement six:

The government has a right to know what people are reading so they may determine who might be a threat I disagree with that statement because obviously the government has the right to read whatever pleases them but I don’t believe they should be reading things to weed out people who may possibly be a threat. In the novel 1984 their government was differed from ours in various ways, but in our current government according to the first amendment guarantees the people the freedom of speech and protects media messages from regulation and censorship. If the government read everything that anyone ever wrote to weed out everyone who was a possible threat, which would be illegal according to the first amendment. Journalists posses the right to write what they wish as long as it doesn’t violate the four privacy torts, having the government interfere with what is being written is going against the law.