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Re:Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving fr... by dnadler on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:09AM (#18362128)

Responding to the sibling re: censoring pornography. The 1st amendment prevents the government from interfering with the free exchange of ideas (among other things). We generally believe that letting the government regulate this kind of thing is a dangerous slippery slope.

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Re:Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving fr... by Certhas on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:03AM (#18362367)

Obscenity laws are constitutional in the US. Obscene speech is not protected by the 1st Amendment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California

There are myriads of other exceptions to 1st Amendment protections (including, even if people often don't think of it that way, intellectual property rights):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

The whole idea that "Free speech is protected in the US but not in Europe" is just an (libertarian?) meme with no basis in fact.

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