QuoteAccording to a new poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment organization, nearly a third of Americans, including similar numbers of Republicans and Democrats, say that the First Amendment goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. More than half agreed that their local community should not allow a public speech that espouses a belief they find particularly offensive.

https://reason.com/2024/02/27/poll-almost-a-third-of-americans-say-the-first-amendment-goes-too-far/

I can not measure which is more ignorant, the one's saying "that the First Amendment goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees." or the rag of the article which printed it. How does one get the message across that the Bill of Rights DOES NOT GRANT ANYTHING, IT LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT ON INTRUDING ON OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS?  The first does not give us freedom of speech, it limits the government on restricting that right. Why are these people willing to allow the government to limit rights that the government did not give in the first place?


Two items I can not stand, hearing the government "gives" us rights, and that we are a democracy.         

What are they teaching in school?

Free speech doesn't go to far, people take it to far. Nobody has any morals. That's why we have these social media influencers, pranksters, frauditors, and video bullies (my new term for those who whip out a camera in order to influence the viewer that the person being filmed is the bad guy when it is not). These people take it too far, and their fans support it taking it too far. They are all guilty. Harassing people going about their miserable lives for social media clout and money is downright criminal.

I have said before that I don't view social media and tech companies as private entities. I view them as the 1st Amendment in the modern age. They have the power to effect public opinion. They need to be held accountable for their biased stances that effect public opinion. I stand by that.

Google, is just one on many companies that need to be broken up. They have too much power in our lives. Saying two genders is "misinformation", but making them up is OK.

They ban Trump for saying mean things, yet actual terrorists and criminals still get to say and do whatever they want. I still say Trump should have said that he was going to Gab or whatever after his banning. It would have hurt Twitter and helped the new guy on the block.

Quote from: Possum on February 28, 2024, 02:21:19 PMhttps://reason.com/2024/02/27/poll-almost-a-third-of-americans-say-the-first-amendment-goes-too-far/

I can not measure which is more ignorant, the one's saying "that the First Amendment goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees." or the rag of the article which printed it. How does one get the message across that the Bill of Rights DOES NOT GRANT ANYTHING, IT LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT ON INTRUDING ON OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS?  The first does not give us freedom of speech, it limits the government on restricting that right. Why are these people willing to allow the government to limit rights that the government did not give in the first place?


Two items I can not stand, hearing the government "gives" us rights, and that we are a democracy.         

What are they teaching in school?

"Sticks and stones ------------". This is what we were raised on. It needs to be brought back to our schools.