America has a first amendment problem.

[hay rick]

5. I am not advocating for changes to the First Amendment or for taking cases to court based on First Amendment violations.

First Amendment protections create vulnerabilities and those vulnerabilities are being exploited. Those vulnerabilities and abuses have metastasized over the last decade. I do not say that lies are not protected speech. I am saying that the lies are now an epidemic and we have to adjust to that reality as a matter of self-defense.

Once upon a time, people went to a library or an encyclopedia to get mostly reliable, curated information on a subject and we lived in a largely shared reality. That shared reality is dissolving in front of our eyes now. Maybe we need a new dewey decimal system appropriate for our age.