> The funny thing is about rights guaranteed by the constitution is that the courts continually keep moving towards the idea of, "they're not absolute rights".

> The funny thing is about rights guaranteed by the constitution is that the courts continually keep moving towards the idea of, "they're not absolute rights". We slowly build the chain from, "no shouting fire in a crowded theater" to not being able to express a mathematical formula without being regarded as an international arms dealer. It should be noted that the modern interpretation of the first amendment only goes back to the early 1900s. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/what-holmes https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/what-... This isn't to say the modern interpretation is bad or unimportant, but I don't actually think it was what the constitution's authors intended.