“He’s a news aggregator, fear peddler, and doomsday products huckster.”
In other words he is a perfect test case for the first amendment.
In this case “government” is not placing restrictions on speech—they are using proxies and the civil courts to do it for them.
I have had many folks on FR make all sorts of false claims against me over the years:
“Putin Puffer”
“Insane conspiracy theorist”
and many many more....
If “false claims” is grounds for silencing someone this forum would get quiet in a hurry...
“he is a perfect test case for the first amendment”
Except defamation is not protected by the first amendment, so that’s irrelevant here.
/sarc