For several years (starting in 1992, with shows #S952-S953), Firing Line had made a practice of inviting all the participants in a debate to return for a free-form discussion of the same topic. Those shows were fun but hectic, with seven or eight people clamoring for attention. This new format allows for real discussion, and this one proves enlightening, even if none of the participants' minds was changed. LG: "Nearly every change in the domestic social policy in the last forty years has, amazingly, come not from legislatures but from the Supreme Court. We have basic questions of criminal procedure, prayer in the schools, and so on that have been decided by the Supreme Court. Now how has that happened? Well, they're interpreting the Constitution. . . . And virtually all of these decisions . . . involve or purport to involve a single constitutional provision, the Fourteenth Amendment." . . . NS: "Barry Lynn mentioned our victory in having the Supreme Court. . . strike down Congress's attempt to regulate the Internet, but at the very same time, not only states but local library boards and local school boards were busy enacting their own restrictions on the Internet. Now that is a particularly dramatic example, because given the global nature of this medium, what's done in one local district, one state, can affect censorship and free speech not only for everybody in that local community, but indeed in the entire United States and even worldwide."
- Hoover ID: Program S1167
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