> Freedom of speech and press are principles that are in the first amendment but also exist independent of it, and are older than the US The constitution was w

> Freedom of speech and press are principles that are in the first amendment but also exist independent of it, and are older than the US The constitution was written by the same people who brought you the Alien and Sedition Acts. It’s rather clear that we take the document much, much more seriously than its authorsever did (for whom it was mainly just a collection of nice sounding principles and vague guidelines). Not much changed in the next 100 years. The Sedition Act of 1918 was not struck down as unconstitutional. Something like that would be inconceivable these days. The current interpretation of the first amendment is pretty modern and “freedom of speech” in the way we understand it at least is not something that ever existed on a large scale at any point in the past. > We should strive to have those values enforced everywhere, not just in the government - but especially at large companies How? Do large corporations, their employees, CEOs etc. lose their rights to freedom of speech themselves when their organization surpasses a specific revenue limit?