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To: simpson96

Idiot.

The First Amendment prohibits the government from censoring what you might want to say before you say it.

It does NOT make you immune to suffering consequences for what you’ve said after you’ve said it. If it did, we wouldn’t have libel and slander laws.


8 posted on 10/18/2025 9:52:34 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (I never left the Democratic Party. It left me, and every time I look it keeps going further left.)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus
It does NOT make you immune to suffering consequences for what you’ve said after you’ve said it.

As a retired university professor, it is well known in academe that you can generally say what you want on social media but if you embarrass your employer, you will be fired. Tenure might slow the process but isn't necessarily protection from losing your position.

11 posted on 10/18/2025 10:02:37 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.)
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