Benjamin Franklin on - "liberty of the press."

Wonderful and frightening that so many of the Founders' thoughts that were prescient:

"If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself." —Benjamin Franklin (1789)

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