Your Right to Be an Idiot

Let’s get something straight from the get-go. The First Amendment is sacrosanct. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of thought, the whole ball of wax — it’s the DNA of the United States, the stuff America is made of. You don’t mess with it, ever. Without it, we’re North Korea with a few shopping malls.

No lying, fear-mongering administration, no sanctimonious red-state senator, no judge with an ax to grind has the right to screw around with it. Even those of you far to the right of sanity must see the wisdom in that. Remember those guys with the powdered wigs and the tight breeches and the bad teeth? Jefferson and Hamilton and that mob? Those were your guys, once. For the sake of what follows, let’s pretend the First Amendment still matters, even to you.

So, what to do with Wikipedia? And, in a broader sense, what to do with the free flow of information on the internet?

In a word, nothing.

By Tony Long

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