Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by fredstarr on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:32PM
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Y'all are really taking this shit serious! LMAO. I think my own First Amendment rights should be revoked, actually! LOL
Jokes aside, I'm against censorship. I think information should be available to all but maybe with caveats and accountability.
BTW, I agree with the proposed remedies. But - Who's gonna bell the cat though? It ain't going to be any of y'all's Senators, CongressPeople or the Executive Branch. And we all know for damn sure that it's never going to be the Supreme Court.
Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by shadowgovt on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:36PM
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"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
... emphasis on the last part.
That having been said: the First Amendment is not absolute, and there are exceptions to the general principle that people are free to say what they feel (Assange, for example, could be tried on espionage if he's extradited). But in general, exceptions are carved with a jeweler's chisel, and only when extremely necessary and when there are no other possible remedies.
In this case, the sickness you've highlighted has several potential non-first-amendment remedies, including enforcing monopoly laws, passing new monopoly laws, and taxing billionaires at a rate that would make it difficult for them to keep the surplus cash-on-hand to buy 70% of the US's newspapers. And changing the market via law to find a new way to pay for news since the Internet era has completely ingested and digested their traditional advertising model.