Tech reporter Adi Robertson of The Verge, November 2, 2022, sees the First Amendment endangered with politicians attacking speech laws. The advent of the internet created new circumstances that defy easy regulation, and lawmakers and judges are gutting the First Amendment in their attempts to address the problems. “…the internet allows people to speak to each other at a scale unprecedented in human history,” says Robertson. “The shortcomings and tradeoffs of the laws governing that speech have never been so evident, and their troublesome edge cases never so numerous. And instead of trying to reckon with a new world, the people who make and enforce those laws have abdicated their principles and responsibilities in favor of wielding raw power — and, often, abdicating a lot of their common sense as well.”
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