First Amendment to the United States Constitution

In the meantime, the AI-generated child porn has been legalized.

The court reasoned that, under Stanley v. Georgia, individuals have a First Amendment right to possess obscenity in their homes, and that this right extends to virtual CSAM, especially in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Ashcroft v.

Free Speech Coalition, which distinguished virtual CSAM from material involving actual children.

The court left the production and distribution charges intact.

So we have to decide what to do about this issue, says Mark Behrendt, a philosopher at ULB University in Belgium.

With child-sized silicone sex dolls already being made and shipped globally by firms in China and Japan, Behrendt thinks it's just a matter of time before child sex dolls are given artificial intelligence and the ability to talk and move.

The First Amendment.

I can't stop thinking about the second in these matters.

Some of the novelty of politics has probably worn off as well in ways that might be hard to see from the outside.

But you see so many good people who are going in trying to just do great things for a country, and then you see kind of Monday morning quarterbacks who are either not well-versed in a subject, don't have kind of the inside information, don't have the intelligence, you know, questioning, second-guessing, and that's fine, right? I mean, that's, we have a First Amendment in the United States.

It's something, by the way, that you're losing over here, which I just, I caution so as a person who absolutely adores You know, the UK is a person who adores Ireland, is a person who adores, you know, all of Europe.

Be very careful with losing kind of a First Amendment right.

Is this a

long way to say no, you wouldn't do it?

systemic racism he is the guy that created the 94 crime bill and then bill clinton signed it into law bill clinton has been accused of rape five times bill clinton who was on epstein island where is your rage at the people that voted for them and i think that while i can validate when leftists are like but he did this or he did that and sometimes it's true sometimes you're like yeah ugh yikes The problem is, in my opinion, we are confronted with very imperfect candidates.

And when you now have to pick You're looking at, all right, open borders, losing the First Amendment over stuff like COVID.

Because you had characters like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and Kamala Harris suggesting there should be criminal penalties for misinformation around COVID that turned out to, by the way, not be misinformation.

When you're being confronted with existential threats that fact-check, Not ones that are being lied about, like the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, for example.

That's the deal.

The First Amendment isn't supposed, isn't, Well, the First Amendment includes the freedom to be stupid.

Thank God.

Right.

Because if stupidity was unconstitutional, Washington would have to shut down by

lunchtime.

But Elon Musk puts it, the First Amendment is when someone you don't like says something you don't like.

If you can defend that, then that's the First Amendment.

You know, you went from a system in which it was really bad to say racist things, but...

We did live in a country in which you had the First Amendment, and that was the price that you paid for having freedom of speech.

We moved from that system into a system where your free speech was protected as long as what you were saying was reasonable or not hurtful.

And that's more the German system.

But my attitude has been, If you're going to allow the Brotherhood to have these kinds of influence operations and they are the ideological heft of this movement, what did you think was going

to happen? So how does a nation with a First Amendment protection for religion and the practice thereof and freedom of expression and freedom of speech, how does a nation properly police and screen and ensure that a religious organization or an ethnic organization in this case, or both, is in fact legitimate and peaceful and safe while others are nefarious and plotting war against our nation.

It seems like an impossible task.

It's not it's very difficult, but it's not impossible.

It was an era marked by rapidly proliferating official and unofficial wars, extreme government secrecy, a subversion of democratic debate, expanding presidential power, dozens of secret prisons overseas, Widespread torture, the advent of drone strikes, the rise of the counterterrorism industrial complex and private contracting, overhauls of immigration policy, and restrictions on the freedoms of speech and press, rights to privacy, and a blank check in the name of national security.

And we'll speak to Jamil Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

The lawless detention of immigrants in the weeks after the attacks was one of the first signs that we were operating in a new paradigm.

And it contained the seeds of many of the abuses that we saw later on that we see around us today.

Jamil Jaffer and Asmat Khan just helped organize a symposium called The Forever War and the First Amendment.

All that and more coming up.

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There's already something that bans that.

It's called the First Amendment.

I mean, the same argument.

No, I agree.

On the legal side, we do.

We have one.

It's the First Amendment.

That's all I'm saying.

I never understood that.

Maybe it's an issue of First Amendment.

I have no idea.

But, you know, it's private property.