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by mtgx 3378 days ago
Fourth Amendment has been trashed and killed by the previous two administrations. With all of NSA and FBI's "interpretations" of what reasonable spying means for an investigation, the 4th just doesn't do much anymore to protect people's privacy. Most of the judges either haven't figured out what's happening and how the agencies use their new tools or they are complicit.

The Fifth Amendment is now getting killed at the federal court level, and I'm not sure what are the chances for the current or even future Supreme Court setup are to revert this.

And now we're watching the First Amendment die in slow motion, too, both from attacks of the current administration, which basically says that the 1st amendment is a bad thing and "makes us weak", as well as from all the different groups out there who seem to "take offense" for everything that happens, and want to be in "safe spaces."

And because the media is consolidated in a few large companies and all they care about is profits, it's easy to take down content that "offends" various groups.

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First Amendment would be the U.S. Government saying "take down those videos". That's not what's happening.