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Originally Posted by well named
1) Has technology changed so much that we should re-think the costs and benefits of various kinds of speech and speech restrictions?
The 1A was after Gutenberg's revolutionary technology was well-established.
What has really changed in the last 240 years? Reach.
The scale of our society has swelled, carried by the scale of our press.
Were salaciously scandalous slanders not sold throughout the secessionist's succeeding centuries?
Your question, then, is: Are the freedoms enshrined in the 1A scalable? If your suggestion is "no", then what is your critical threshold?
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2) Does the 1st amendment's exclusive focus on government regulation of speech still make sense?
As the Amendments are fundamentally limitations on the powers of government, the answer is plainly "yes",
and to answer "no" to this question is to deprive the people of this limitation.