The First Amendment allows the people of the United States to voice unpopular opinions, preventing tyranny by the majority. It also allows people to assembly peaceable and allows the press to report fact and voice opinion without prior restraint. If we cannot petition our government for the redress of grievances we risk the hardening of a permanent majority into a self-enforcing bureaucracy.
Thomas Jefferson once said that if forced to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, he wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter. Assembly, the exchange of ideas, and understanding the actions of society keep us free, and are why the press was intended to be a de facto fourth branch of government.
"Free Speech is the right to yell, "Theater!" at a crowded fire."
- Abbie Hoffman, radical, describing the First Amendment
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noun,
1. A hateful bitch.
2. A truly heinous she-devil so brutal that anachronistic and unusual colloquial slang is called for.
That haint never leaves a tip and still has a George W. Bush sticker on the back of her pink Hummer.
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A Wall Monitor is a subspecies of the Facebook stalker:
1. Someone who checks the status of people's relationships by seeing if they are posting on each other's Facebook walls.
2. Someone who sees a post on someone's Facebook wall and traces the conversation from wall to wall in reverse.
Wall Monitors know more about you than you do about them. They prune information from their profiles and scour yours. This is not an equal transaction.
In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
Ve cut it off.
(I say, "Ve cut off your Johnson!")
Zen ve stomp on it and sqvish it.
"I need my fucking Johnson."
"What do you need that for, Dude?"
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(Taken from gardening, the removal of unwanted foliage):
To erase information, usually personal information, that was posted on the Internet in an attempt to reclaim anonymity.
Having so much information available on Facebook is exposing yourself. You might want to prune it.
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A large interstellar hunk of minerals with an orbital path that is considered too small for our arbitrary definition of "planet."
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing, because Plutitos fuck up mnemonic devices in the worst way.
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