Who cares about free speech?

[Dill]

(07-27-2023, 08:09 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Yes, yes it would.  However I'm going to project that it would lead to something like what we see in the totalitarian, State run media Nations.  Every time we, or our representatives vote in new laws, we give up a little more of those freedoms that our founding fathers based the bill of rights to our constitution upon.

We live in such a complex society though. 

And communications technology advances, it often outstrips the law
--and sometimes people profit from that and want to keep it that way.

Comparing the Founders' era to the present, think of how weapons technology has advanced. 
Can't see Jefferson worrying much if every home has a couple of muskets. If you wanted to be
a mass shooter back then, how many would you get before you got got by your neighbors? 

Once automatic weapons and machine guns can be mass produced relatively cheaply,
the situation changes dramatically and lethally. 

It's kind of like that now with technology. It's become dangerous in a way that people could not
have suspected even 40 years ago.