Recently, oral arguments were heard regarding a case about license plates and the first amendment. The Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has challenged a rejection of their proposed plate that had images of the Confederate flag.
The Texas solicitor general argued that, "Messages on Texas license plates are government speech ... [because] Texas etches its name onto each license plate and Texas law gives the state sole control and final approval authority over everything that appears on a license plate.”
Please share your ideas/comments on this case or your views on vanity plates in general.
Story: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-confederate-license-plates-20150323-story.html
Case: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_14_144
What a vanity plate is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_plate
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2015, @01:16AM
It was clearly a reference to the war. Top Gear has a history of being totally un-politically-correct - that is (was?) part of it's charm. They're not racist, they take the mick out of everyone equally, including themselves. However, when they're called on it they have a nasty habit of denying things which are *obviously* true. What are the chances they got that numberplate by accident? Almost zero.