[ExI] A test of the US constitution

[Ben Zaiboc]

Ok, I'll take the "Ja". The rest is not really relevant.


On 20/09/2026 15:24, spike wrote:
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> Ja, however ...
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> On Sat, Sep 19, 2026, 1:06 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>     This is not about not being invited, it's about being ejected when they already had access. Being ejected purely because someone doesn't like what they are saying.
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>     I would have thought that comes under the heading of 'restricting the press', and so is a violation of the first amendment.
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>     If the president allows access for the organisations that write favourable reports about him, and expels those that don't, isn't that restricting the press? If not, the term has a very narrow, and not very useful, meaning.
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>     Yes, they can write what they like, but this is a case of them being denied access to the information they would write about. It has the same effect as censoring what they write. 

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Ben