...“The left was once not just on board but leading in supporting the broadest First Amendment protections,” said Floyd Abrams, a prominent First Amendment lawyer and a supporter of broad free-speech rights. “Now the progressive community is at least skeptical and sometimes distraught at the level of First Amendment protection which is being afforded in cases brought by litigants on the right.” Many on the left have traded an absolutist commitment to free speech for one sensitive to the harms it can inflict.... https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/...n=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
The first amendment is core to this country, but the first amendment is between citizen and government, not citizen and citizen. And that is something a lot of people do not understand.
He's saying the 1st amendment doesn't apply between me and you. You can kick me off your property if I say something you don't like at your bbq.
The owners of this forum can limit your speech. In fact, if you come on here complaining that all redheads are evil and need to be wiped off the face of the earth, it is well within their right to squash your speech. However, the government cannot come and arrest you. The owners of this forum, however, cannot keep you from keep on saying these things about gingers, but just from saying them here. And if you don't like that form of moderation, you are welcome to go elsewhere.
