American Fascists Are Changing the Meaning of "Freedom of Speech" and No-one is Pushing Back

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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I see I'm talking to an armchair supreme court judge with a law degree from the university of It Stands To Reason.

Well according to the first amendment there shouldnt have been. "Congress shall make no law abridging the right to freedom of speech”. Its quite clear.

Not so clear to the Founding Fathers, who treated common law torts like defamation to be outside of constitutional protection. Not so clear to the courts who treated it as unprotected speech like obscenities and "fighting words".