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> What? I've never read a law passed by Congress that makes any reading material illegal. That's correct. In the US, we have the First Amendment to prevent gov
by cratermoon 3y ago
> What? I've never read a law passed by Congress that makes any reading material illegal.
That's correct. In the US, we have the First Amendment to prevent government interference, and the genesis of that law goes back to John Milton's Areopagitica.
On the flip side, that same document gives private business broad economic freedom,
and businesses are not afraid to use their economic power to suppress or bury ideas that threaten their profits.