The First Amendment was meant to preserve the free exchange of ideas. It was not intended to shield harmful sexual conduct from public shame, especially if the price is the sexualization of children.
16 red states ask Supreme Court to rule on parental rights, gender identity at schoolAccess to porn isn't a First Amendment issues
These lawmakers are putting kids first, despite the bewildering opposition of some out-of-touch “free speech” advocates. Advocates claim this legislation violates the U.S. Supreme Court’s modern First Amendment decisions.case, the current Court is willing to chart a different course: a course more in line with the actual history and tradition of our country.
For the first 175 years of our country’s history, legal restrictions on graphic sexual material coexisted in harmony with robust free speech protections. As late as 1947, fresh off our nation’s triumph over the book-burning Nazis, the U.S. Supreme Court observed that the prevention and punishment of “lewd and obscene” speech “have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem.” The “Greatest Generation” knew well the difference between reasoned arguments and sex pics.
Some harms are best prevented upstream, at their source. Consider a factory belching pollutants tolerable for adult lungs but deadly to children. Would we permit that because parents could just make their kids wear a mask? No, we’d stop the problem at its source.
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