Trump's birthright policy "...proposes a new reading of the Fourteenth Amendment." No, it proposes going back to the old reading. The word 'jurisdiction' in the 14th amendment is there for a reason. It acknowledges that not everyone is subject to the jurisdiction of the federal government merely by being born in the USA. That's what the amendment was getting at. More recent court rulings have INTERPETED the amendment (in other words, made up their own meanings) to grant citizenship to anyone born here. It says no such thing, and intended no such thing.
As for censorship, get real. If a government is involved in it, it's government censorship. By way of example, if I 'influence' someone to commit a criminal act, then I am guilty of that criminal act, even if I wasn't directly involved. That's the law. If a government influences anyone to commit censorship, then that is a violation of the first amendment. And I shouldn't even have to argue this. Clearly, a healthy society encourages all points of view. Only totalitarian states encourage censorship.
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Trump's birthright policy "...proposes a new reading of the Fourteenth Amendment." No, it proposes going back to the old reading. The word 'jurisdiction' in the 14th amendment is there for a reason. It acknowledges that not everyone is subject to the jurisdiction of the federal government merely by being born in the USA. That's what the amendment was getting at. More recent court rulings have INTERPETED the amendment (in other words, made up their own meanings) to grant citizenship to anyone born here. It says no such thing, and intended no such thing.
As for censorship, get real. If a government is involved in it, it's government censorship. By way of example, if I 'influence' someone to commit a criminal act, then I am guilty of that criminal act, even if I wasn't directly involved. That's the law. If a government influences anyone to commit censorship, then that is a violation of the first amendment. And I shouldn't even have to argue this. Clearly, a healthy society encourages all points of view. Only totalitarian states encourage censorship.