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Nothing in the comment mentions domestic mail, just email


Nothing in the constitution distinguishes the two they’re both mail.. which is obvious from the root word in the two.


The constitution provides that:

> The Congress shall have Power...To establish Post Offices and post Roads

It does not obligate the congress to do so, and most certainly (and unsurprisingly) does not contain language that guarantees any sort of right to email service.


Email is a subset of mail ergo the laws that apply to mail apply to email. Are you telling me that the method of delivery whether it be by horse, car, person, or telephone wire should impact the applicability of the law?


This is outstandingly wrong, the internet is no more protected under the constitution than any network of computers (aka none) from free speech, mail delivery, etc.

You may make the argument that it should be, and I might even tend to agree, but you don’t get to declare that the Constitution agrees with you. You can certainly even claim the spirit of the law should extend to the internet due to its ubiquity (which i might agree with as well), but that’s nothing but an interpretation.


You’re pushing on a string here — when I asked for some supporting evidence for their claims, the poster responded that… Well… I’ll let the response speak for itself:

> I don’t need a citation other than the fact that they share the common root word, and that people with common sense, which we would hope to be on the Supreme Court, see the argument that I’ve made is perfectly logical. I don’t need freaking precedence. I’m setting the precedence right now by giving a better logical argument than anybody else apparently ever has


Citation please. Literally nothing you wrote is correct in the United States.


I don’t need a citation other than the fact that they share the common root word, and that people with common sense, which we would hope to be on the Supreme Court, see the argument that I’ve made is perfectly logical. I don’t need freaking precedence. I’m setting the precedence right now by giving a better logical argument than anybody else apparently ever has


Have a nice day.




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