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Depends almost wholly on how the state Constitution was written. As long as it doesn't fall afoul of the US Constitution.

And it's hardly trying to be North Korea. Hysterics don't help, and actually hurt any rational discussion.

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anonymousab|3 years ago

> As long as it doesn't fall afoul of the US Constitution

Rather, as long as it doesn't run afoul of the intents and preferences of very conservative US judges.

natch|3 years ago

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mbreese|3 years ago

Anything touching the internet is interstate commerce, so in this non-lawyer’s opinion, state laws aren't the last say on the matter. It would be very difficult for any state to block a citizen from saying something online that is legal federally.

atwood22|3 years ago

Freedom to publish information is in the constitution.

edmundsauto|3 years ago

Why are we using a 200+ year old document that represented the preferences of maybe 20% of the country to regulate the internet?

That seems so completely absurd, almost like people are turning it into a holy book or fetishizing it.

ChrisLomont|3 years ago

>Why are we using a 200+ year old document that represented the preferences of maybe 20% of the country to regulate the internet?

Because it and following interpretation provides the boundaries for law in the US.

And comparing it to a fetish, or labeling it a 200 year old document, when is has been changed since then (last amended in 1992, still has multiple amendments pending, and can be changed again) is also absurd.

JumpCrisscross|3 years ago

> Why are we using a 200+ year old document

Because it’s worked. The alternative, opening up the entire system of government for debate, simultaneously, continuously, predictably tears itself apart in a generation. (That or you wind up with an unwritten Constitution only the elites can decipher.) The Constitution isn’t sacred. But it’s far from worthless as a basis of our society.

MisterBastahrd|3 years ago

Unironically using the term "hysterics" to talk about the outrage regarding an abolition of women's healthcare...

dontcare007|3 years ago

Abolition? No, just a relinquishing of power from the Federal to the State.