BREAKING: Supreme Court justice discovers why the First Amendment was written:
My biggest concern is that your view has the 1st Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways...
Uh, well, yeah, that's literally the entire reason it was created, but proceed.
...in the most the most important time periods.
By which you mean the periods of time that the government wants to silence the speech of those who dissent with an official government position, like, say, the Stamp Act of 1765?
What would you have the government do? I've heard you say a couple of times that the government can post its own speech, but in my hypothetical, "Kids, this is not safe, don't do it," is not gonna get it done.
Won't someone think of the kids?
Everyone knows only the government cares about kids, which is why they colluded with Facebook, Google, and Twitter to shut down the speech of anyone (even experts) who countered the government's narrative about Covid, school shutdowns, or the vaccine.
The kids were really helped by that. Thanks, government!!
And so, I guess some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country, and you seem to be suggesting that that duty can not manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information.
Well, see, back in this year called 1776, there was this "harmful information" called the Declaration of Independence that had some philosophical ideas about people governing themselves. The government was quite upset by this and felt it had the duty to "take steps to protect the citizens" of its American colonies and that looked like this:
I'm really worried about that, because you've got the 1st Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances from the government's perspective and you're saying that the government can't interact with the source of those problems.
Holy moly that is a SCARY quote. Read it again.
Yes, that's literally what the 1A says!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
If the government can stop what you say, why not stop who you are allowed to pray to or who you are allowed to meet or any type of protest against the government at all?
I really can't understand how someone this ignorant can sit on the Supreme Court, but I'm not a biologist so I dunno.
Yo Justice Jackson, the 1A was written with you specifically in mind!
Thanks for proving the Founders right!
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. - CS Lewis
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