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We allow censorship now and have for many years. Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, and true threats. Defamation that causes harm to reputation is a tort and also an exception to free speech.Wrong.
Once you allow censorship, then all the wealthy elite have to do is buy or destroy all the alterative media competition, and they can control every thing every one sees or hears.
That guarantees a dictatorship.
Didn't the lies about Iraqi WMD teach you anything?
We already have a monopoly on information enough as it is.
I can remember the Internet back in the late 80's before the world wide web (WWW) Facebook, Google, and Twitter when you could get away saying anything what ever you choose on sites such as Prodigy or CompuServe. It was common to see threads, against the president, other members, and just about anyone else, post after post filled with profanity and nothing else, and people offering advice of bomb building, offering stolen merchandise for sale, etc. I really don't think anyone really wants to go back to totally free speech.