Latest comic: Using the First Amendment to end the First Amendment

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@jensorensen "A tolerant society must be intolerant to intolerance." Also: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Free Speech

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Unfortunately, you can no longer search on "Javed Iqbal" without finding a serial killer of the same name. But another one was cable-TV salesman who sold packages that included a Hezbollah-adjacent TV channel, so that $1/month of the sale might find its way to Hezbollah.

He was convicted of "material support for terrorism" for selling TV: speech became "money", which was "material".

So, money is just speech, when convenient, and speech is money, when convenient.

@jensorensen I do like how the comics emphasizes that the end result is just a next step. Not something randomly anomalous but just another step after so many before it.

@jensorensen

Hello. May I share this on Threads?

@beccanalia Yes, thanks for asking. I'm not on Threads, but if you can give some sort of credit, that would be great.

@jensorensen

Thank you. It's my policy to ask for permission and then give clear attribution and where possible, a link to the person's other web presences.

When I finally get back to it, I'll update you here.