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The 1st amendment was written at a very specific time back when the governments were the biggest oppressors, and the megacorporations of modern kind didn't exis
by Joker_vD 4y ago
The 1st amendment was written at a very specific time back when the governments were the biggest oppressors, and the megacorporations of modern kind didn't exist; so it has protections against historically well-known and well-understood state censorship but not against not yet existing corporate censorship.
- tbrownaw 4y agoIt's part of what's more-or-less the design document for the federal government. So of course it doesn't talk about behavior of non-government entities. Not because that's not important, but because it's off-topic and out of scope.
- nullc 4y agoThe government is the ultimate monopoly, you have no alternatives to it. Some things have changed but that hasn't. Instead of the first amendment being somehow applied to private actors (really dicey because doing that would violate _their_ first amendment rights!) perhaps what you should want instead is the re-fanging of antitrust?