Sunday, March 21, 2004

People are fucking stupid about the 1st Amendment. There’s no constitutional duty to say anything, and the amendment only says that the government can’t censor someone – it does not stop any kind of censorship from being a condition of sponsorship or employment. Sure, it would be nice, in some mythical fairy-tale perfect world, if you really could say anything you wanted anywhere you wanted. But anyone who doesn't understand why mainstream newspapers can't or shouldn't print offensive opinions, or even certain offensive facts, has a three-year-old's grasp of reality.

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