A major reason I think the 1st amendment is bullshit is that it protects antivaxxer pseudoscience that actively gets people killed and brainwashing misinformation campaigns that result in outright fascism but not, like, sex workers running business without endangering themselves
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The "naive" reading of the 1st Amendment held by US libertarians *would* provide a great deal more protection for sex workers than any existing jurisdiction in the world, but for that reason is clearly too radical to exist in any jurisdiction in the world
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Yeah - though notably here, almost nothing is categorized as obscene any more, and that's not usually what gets dinged.
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SESTA, in particular, doesn't quite touch on constitutional rights, it just removes a safe harbor that ensured courts could acquit without getting to the constitutional question. The result isn't just about new prosecutions, but new incentives for corporations.
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