(February 10, 2016 at 6:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Brian, the First Amendment doesn't only apply to technology of the era.
If it did, you'd have to accept government censorship of writing done on a typewriter or computer. You'd have to accept government restricting assemblies of people to those who would arrive on foot or by horse.
Applying that standard to only guns is applying a double standard.
What the fuck? The First Amendment also adapts to changing times, what double standard are you talking about?
They didn't have TV stations back then which was media, and even our radio tower technology has changed since then and so have the regulations to disseminate information. The regulations for the first microwave radio and TV towers back then could not handle our modern satellite and cell tower technology? Or do you think information magically moves with no human help?
By your logic, kiddy porn should be legal on the net because we had no internet at the founding of the country.
The First Amendment most certainly does change with changing technology.
Regulations always change with changing times, you stupidly think any at all is a call for an outright ban.
Freedom of religion is legal, but denying a baby medical care for religious reasons isn't. Making movies depicting fires in them is legal, but shouting fire in a theater when there is none, is not.
They way we move information has changed, not freedom of speech, just like the 2nd Amendment isn't an outright ban but even that has the word "regulated" in it. And times have changed since the founders.
No double standard at all.
