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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by bb88 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:38PM (#37317008)
I'm not saying you're wrong, I just think the founding fathers could not anticipate the world we have today.

The problem of course being that intelligence tests were used in the 60's to deny voting rights. But the founding fathers were okay with slavery, so would they have been okay with that for that purpose?

Originalism has a purpose I think, but, we've changed so much since then...

Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by chonkerz on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:31AM (#37318417)
The founding fathers would be horrified that we let the slaves and women vote. We shouldn't put too much stock in what they think.
Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by refurb on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:21AM (#37319089)
Wow, I take it you haven’t read much about them then? Because that statement is 100% false.
Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by plagiarist on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:59AM (#37320146)
Then why didn't they write the founding documents so that black people would be free and women and black people could vote? Would have saved us a lot of conflict over the years.
Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by refurb on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:50AM (#37320614)
Because, at the time, those beliefs were not universal, and a compromise was made as formation of the Republic would likely not have happened otherwise.

All the writings of the Founding Fathers are free and publicly available. You can learn all about it.

Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by plagiarist on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:52AM (#37321273)
I like learning, link us to some quotes.
Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by refurb on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:49AM (#37322982)
Like any subject, I’d you want a respectable understanding it’s going to take some commitment to studying key documents, not just reading. A few quotes.

You don’t get smarter reading a few 140 characters tweets.

Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by lostlogin on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:10AM (#37322415)
That might explain the document, but that doesn’t explain some of them keeping slaves themselves. Jefferson even went on to be president and while he did things to restrict the trade, he kept slaves and opposed some measure to restrict slavery (for reasons much as you describe).

https://www.crf-usa.org/images/t2t/pdf/HowShouldWeJudgeOurNa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_slavery

Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by CutieConstable on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:54AM (#37320661)
Because it would have tore up the social and economic fabric of significant parts of the US. The Founders were ahead of their time, but they still recognized that the vast majority of their countrymen were not.