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At a hip-hop festival called Craze Fest in Hammond, Indiana, just outside of Chicago, rapper Chief Keef appeared on stage as a hologram. But his Saturday night performance only lasted one song before the police shut it down.
Chief Keef, born Keith Cozart, originally planned to hold a benefit concert for his friend and a toddler who were both killed during a shooting this month. The concert was to be held at a theater in Chicago, but Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's office reportedly pressured the theater to cancel the event, according to the Chicago Tribune. The New York Times says the mayor's office called Chief Keef "an unacceptable role model" whose music "promotes violence."
Instead, Chief Keef told his fans that he would perform at an undisclosed location and enlisted Hologram USA to help him appear virtually rather than physically, citing outstanding warrants for his arrest in Illinois. Fans weren't told Chief Keef would be performing in Hammond at Wolf Lake Pavilion as part of Craze Fest until 9pm that night.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Chief Keef performed his hit "I Don't Like" [remix and NSFW] from a sound studio in Beverly Hills, California. "[He] was talking about putting a stop to violence when the power was cut off. Police rushed toward the stage, turning the music off about 10:25pm. Shining flashlights, they ordered concertgoers to leave. Fans who gathered Saturday left the grounds in an orderly fashion, though disappointed."
Wanted in Illinois, appeared as a hologram in Indiana, still shut down by police. Good thing for him he was in California.
Additional material from the BBC.
(Score: 2) by Nollij on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:49PM
There is an extensive amount of case law on this exact issue. Most notably, a number of cases involving the KKK.
For example:
"The Court held that government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite, imminent lawless action" [wikipedia.org]
KKK v. City of Desloge [aclu-mo.org], "It is well-settled law that a loss of First Amendment freedoms,
for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.” Phelps-Roper v. Nixon,
Denying the KKK a permit [columbiatribune.com]
You'll notice there are a number of cases where the ACLU has defended the KKK on free speech issues.
Interestingly, the case seems to be much weaker if the shuttered performance is viewed as a commercial endeavor, rather than an exercise of free speech.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 29 2015, @01:13AM
Therefore your first link would apply, were that claim to true.
And, as an aside, one of the reasons I have such respect for the ACLU is that they do support the bad-guy when he's in the right.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday July 31 2015, @02:06PM
The ACLU is very consistent on this: All persons and organizations have a right to speak as they please, so long as it isn't presenting a clear and present danger. It's one of their founding principles: They got started defending socialists who were being arrested for inciting to riot even though their actual "crime" was promoting trade unions. And that means that they defend speech that is completely offensive.
The correct response to speech you don't like, in a free society, is speech countering those arguments. For example, when the Westboro Baptist Church came to protest at my alma mater (we had promoted a gay man to head of our athletics department), the WBC folks ended up on a small street corner surrounded by the largest GLBT pride party that college town had experienced in a long time, with the college president and mayor in attendance showing their support. The cops kept the two groups separated, nothing bad happened, and the effect was the exact opposite of what I'm sure the WBC was hoping for.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.