The first amendment only covers political speech. The government can and does censor things like profanity and pornography (there’s a reason why you can’t say “fuck” on the radio). Advertising isn’t political speech and wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) be protected. Considering that advertising is basically psychological manipulation to get you to buy products, especially products which directly prey on your lizard brain things like hunger, I see no reason not to censor junk food advertisements. It worked with cigarettes.
> The first amendment only covers political speech.
This opinion terrifies me. I'm grateful that so few people, including those in a position to decide on government restraint (ie, SCOTUS, etc), agree with you.
In your ideal world (where the text of the 1st amendment is interpreted as you propose), how do you prevent the government from simply labeling any speech it doesn't like as "non-political" and then censoring it?
[Note in particular: After all, the genius of the First Amendment lies in bringing isegoria and parrhesia together, by securing the equal right and liberty of citizens not simply to “exercise their reason” but to speak their minds.]
“So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......”
“....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came...”
This is from the president. If telling four non-white American Congresswomen to go back where they came from isn’t white supremacy, then holy hell what is?
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Honestly? We don’t even have to try. It’s a tragedy of the commons thing: life forms will reproduce and spread until they die off. Smear some bacteria in a Petri dish and the same thing happens. A lot of it has to do with reproductive healthcare (the lack thereof) in developing nations. Basically, people keep having unprotected sex. Biological reproduction is so fundamental that even if every nation in the world had a stable government, I’m not sure there’s anything we could do that isn’t super dictatorship-y. And even then..
It’s pessimistic, yeah, but we don’t have to even try to have babies. People will keep making that individual choice until we run out of food or energy or something and lots of people, most likely the poor, die.
>life forms will reproduce and spread until they die off
Because they don't have the higher level thinking skills to realize their reproduction will have negative consequences. That's a horrible reason to not at least attempt to address the issue.
The Tesla fans will tell you that he used the car wrong, and in a way they are correct , the fact that the driver did not survived in those Tesla crashes is not good though.
I’m really confused why “maybe make it impossible for this to happen” is so controversial. People fuck up sometimes. Kids are tough. And as peddlers of technology the onus is on us to make people’s lives better, not worse, which includes having the tiniest bit of compassion and maybe using some of those VC millions to prevent these kinds of things. Do y’all truly believe that everyone that this happens to was being careless? Is there no room for an honest mistake?
Well they asume the scenario to get all the land lightning strikes ... and say it is too expensive to build so many towers and not worth it. Surely true, but I thought the main reason is, that it is just too difficult. The lightning will just melt anything where you want to store it and probably take not the intented path to those capacitors or batteries and just burn something else.
And maybe with effort you could build something lightning proof, but the gain is probably way too low.
Still, if I would have the funds avaiable, it would be an awesome project ...
