Free Speech Provision, Government & Profits
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The First Amendment reads, in part: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" (Random House 1939). This sounds marvelous, but, in fact, the framers of the Constitution were all white men of wealth and power and, in reality, "free speech" for all intents and purposes meant the speech which they exchanged with one another. It is one thing to declare that "the people" have the right to free speech, but it is another thing when the channels of communication are owned and controlled by an elite of the wealthy and the powerful. In the 18th century, mass communications consisted of newspapers, which were controlled by a few. Today, over two hundred years later, communications media are certainly much more diverse, but still a relative few of the most wealthy and powerful control the most influential means of communication--newspapers, motion pictures, radio, television, cable systems, and so on. However, today, because of the Internet, individuals have the capability of addressing mass audiences through their computers and modems. I have such a computer and modem, and I use it to express myself on a variety of newsgroups with audiences across the nation and around the world. There are two types of newsgroups on the Internet--the censored (or "moderated") newsgroup and the uncensored or unmoderated newsgroup. The moderated group
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be alive today and turned on a computer and connected to the Internet and clicked on an uncensored newsgroup. They would especially be horrified if they could read what a goodly number of posters have to say about the government and about the leaders of the government.
I am interested in politics, and I visit a number of politically oriented newsgroups, all of them uncensored because I like my speech free and unfiltered. If there is any filtering to do, I will do it myself. I do not trust censors. I also do not trust rich and powerful people (such as all of those who own the media) to tell me the truth, all the truth, and nothing but the truth. The media consist today more and more of huge conglomerates which do not care about giving all of the truth to "the people." To the contrary, the owners of these media conglomerates care only about making money and making more money and protecting the money they already have. In order to do that, they need to have the power to control what people think about and talk about. They are hardly going to give the people information which will undermine the conglomerates' power and ability to increase their profits. Therefore, they are the enemies of free speech.
However, the media conglomerates
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