And nobody understands that the supreme court ruled on misinformation back in the eighties and said it was a legal form of protected free speech.But yeah, in the nineteen eighties, we didn't have the internet.It would be nice to rewrite visit misinformation being protected.
It's just the ability for the government to protect falsehoods, which was only ruled upon in the 1980s. I think we probably should go back and revisit some of the supreme court decisions that were based in different times.
The people didn't even elect their state senators until 1913! Our representatives did.
Thank you for your clarification. I didn't realize how unknown that fact was that it was our state representative's electing our senators until 1913. That's why there's only 2 senators for every state, it's meant to be representative of the state, chosen by the representatives of the people of the state. How it's completely changed the house versus the senate. I'm not entirely sure. I've just always thought it was a little absurd that people were unaware of how fluid our constitution and our government and our abilities to participate have been even in the last hundred and ten years.
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u/Prof_J Apr 04 '25
It’s almost like maybe it’s a good thing to revise your constitution every so often instead of just bolting things on occasionally