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by toomanybeersies 3035 days ago
You have Donald Trump trying to undermine the news media, attacking people for expressing their opinions by refusing to stand for the anthem, calling for stripping the citizenship from those who burn the US flag, and wanting a ban on Muslims entering the country.

Attacks on individual liberties are not limited to a particular political ideology.
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akkat 3035 days ago
By "attacking" you mean calling some news fake news and criticizing other people's political statements. Those things are within the law. Jailing people for their political opinion, like they do in UK, China and Iran, is a violation.

Anyone trying to make laws allowing those things would be attacking the first.

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isleyaardvark 3035 days ago
The Trump adminstration was literally exploring changing the First Amendment:

http://theweek.com/speedreads/695695/reince-priebus-admits-t...

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