I am a bad American. I do not fully support the 1st Amendment.

I flinch at the merest hint of censorship, and I consider opposing threats to the 1st Amendment to be my #1 political priority - and yet, having said that, if someone could come up with a reasonable system that could smack down people’s lies while not affecting their ability to express their opinions? I’d be all over that.

Maybe when technology moves along a few more years, we can have versions of the Jeopardy-robot that can do instant fact-checking of anything people say on national television, and when they say something that isn’t true, it can sound a klaxon and put a giant red ‘WRONG’ over their face for a second.