Reply #179: No, the issue is the law, not the culture in faraway regions and problems [View All]

[The Stranger]

that exist there. The issue is one of a set of institutions and a framework of laws that date back not a few decades, as does the conflict you seem obssessed with, but back centuries and which form the bedrock foundation of the U.S. itself.

These institutions cannot be changed because of what people are broadcasting in faraway lands. No matter how reprehensible you find their broadcasting and their ideas to be -- it is the very fact that they are ideas that prevents you from being able to censor them.

This axiom cannot bow because some are horrified, or because the content is horrifying, because it is the content that is protected -- no matter what the content is.

This is the First Amendment.