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In reply to the discussion: If the UK can do it....why the hell can't we? [View all]Aussie105
(8,303 posts)anything I like, anything nice, anything nasty, without some sort of kickback?
The real world doesn't work like that.
Imagine I yelled 'FIRE!' in a crowded picture theatre.
Imagine I told someone in the street, someone bigger than me, his mother wears army boots and he is a real MotherF'Kr, etc?
First instance, I'd be arrested for being a public nuisance, or causing a riot, in the second I'd get my head kicked in.
The First doesn't work in the real world. Why should it work on the airwaves, in social media, anywhere in fact?
Gotta tune up that first amendment thing!
And the second.
And a few others.
No one said the Constitution is immutable.
(If you do, point me to where the Constitution says that.)
But until you do, people will die from 'friendly' fire, and dumb people will have their brains scrambled by evil wrongdoers like Murdoch and #45.
Ask yourself this - countries that don't have a Constitution, or have one without such a first and second amendment - are they better off, or worse off than the USA?