• TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    The answer is that the 1st amendment makes any such legislation nearly impossible. It’s unfortunate, but there are no easy fixes and that’s probably for the best. We want it to be very difficult to regulate a free press.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Free speech has significant limitations so this is kind of ridiculous. False information under the guise of news is a threat to the safety of citizens and is not a first amendment issue at all.

      This pretending a document written by wealthy misogynist slaveholders hundreds of years ago trumps everything is bullocks. We have got to shut this line of thought down or we are going to be stuck with charlatans and 2nd amendment gun nutters forever.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same for haters of the 2A. The Constitution is, at this time, written in stone, with no chance of changing it.

      And a Constitutional Convention, the easiest path, would be a fucking nightmare in this political climate.

      I got no answers. And if anyone tells you they got a simple answer? They’re an idiot, an asshole, or likely both.