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ENTER SCOTUS: High Court Agrees to Hear Case Threatening Big Tech’s Section 230 Protections
NewsBusters ^ | 10/3/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 10/03/2022 9:21:39 AM PDT by JV3MRC

The leftist Big Tech overlords may finally face a day of reckoning as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the Section 230 law that governs how tech platforms moderate free speech.

SCOTUSblog tweeted Oct. 3 that SCOTUS granted a writ of certiorari to Gonzalez v. Google, “involving the scope of tech companies' immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.” USA Today summarized that the case will have “potentially enormous consequences for social media.” It is the “court’s first test of the broad immunity social media companies have enjoyed under a provision known as Section 230, part of the 1996 Communications Decency Act,” Bloomberg News stated.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bigtech; bloghatingbidenlover; blogpimp; censorship; scotus; section230
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To: semimojo
It says lame-ass bloggers can’t sue Jim just because they think Laz defamed them.

How many women has Laz defamed? By my count, he hasn't identified a single one he wouldn't hit.

21 posted on 10/03/2022 11:07:21 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: JV3MRC

Roberts is on our side on this one.


22 posted on 10/03/2022 11:12:43 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: 1Old Pro
By my count, he hasn't identified a single one he wouldn't hit.

Fair.

23 posted on 10/03/2022 11:16:48 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: Jim W N
"The Constitution is on the side of private business against government intrusions."

You sound like an idiot who would cheer telecommunication companies monitoring and dropping Americans's phone calls if they spoke the wrongthink. Mark my words, the voice recognition and artificial intelligence technology already exists to do it tomorrow.

24 posted on 10/03/2022 11:30:43 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: JV3MRC

Say goodbye to the 1st Amendment.


25 posted on 10/03/2022 11:37:04 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: WMarshal

Facebook and Twitter are NOT telecommunication companies.

Get a clue and quit siding with the fascist Left.


26 posted on 10/03/2022 11:48:43 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

You are like talking to a wall.


27 posted on 10/03/2022 2:23:43 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal

Take a couple of valium, go to bed, and DON’T call me in the morning.

I obviously will not get anywhere with you.

In the meantime, keep stoking the Leftist b#llsh#t.


28 posted on 10/03/2022 2:32:32 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: semimojo

“Just remember, Section 230 is what keeps FR possible.”

I suspect that the Supreme Court can distinguish between bulk sites with millions or billions of users and ‘boutique’ sites, like FR, and will write their opinion to clearly respect that difference.

In any case, it’s completely INTOLERABLE living in Soviet-Style country where the government controls, either directly or with collusion from big tech, virtually everything that 80% (or more) of the country knows about the rest of the world.

That has to end, and hopefully the Supreme Court will do just that.


29 posted on 10/03/2022 4:04:10 PM PDT by BobL
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“but denying conservatives the same level of connectivity as liberals on a social media platform especially during elections reeks of illegality.”

Absolutely ILLEGAL. No different than the phone company (which is also a ‘private’ company) shutting off the phones to the Reagan Campaign in 1980. Whether or not they wanted to do it, they knew it was illegal as hell.


30 posted on 10/03/2022 4:06:50 PM PDT by BobL
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To: cuz1961

“Say goodbye to the 1st Amendment.”

First Amendment was gone once Facebook SILENCED Trump, and before that when the entire media got away with flat-out lying that Trump ‘colluded’ with Russia.

The First Amendment was nice while all sides tried to play by the rules, but it wasn’t designed to handle today’s Democrats controlling the media - it never had a chance.


31 posted on 10/03/2022 4:09:24 PM PDT by BobL
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To: semimojo
Once again, oh so wrong.

I know you are a paid democrat shill but could you please say something truthful once in a while?

Just to make it interesting.

32 posted on 10/03/2022 4:15:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Jim W N

Do you have the mentality of a cheese-eating surrender monkey. Go to DU.


33 posted on 10/03/2022 4:41:12 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal

You’re initial uncalled-for nasty response to me was stupid and you’ve gone from dumb to dumber.

So far, you’ve got nothing affirmative to offer. What are you some kind of Leftist plant here?

Go away and don’t never come back.


34 posted on 10/03/2022 5:05:58 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Jeb! Is that you?


35 posted on 10/03/2022 5:08:20 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal
Facebook and Twitter are NOT telecommunication companies. Get a clue and quit siding with the fascist Left.

Let's see, is that when you completely went off the rails?

You're long on stupid and short on actual substance.

Hey, I thought I told you to go take a couple of valium, go to bed, and DON'T come back.

Get lost Dork.

36 posted on 10/03/2022 6:13:57 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
The problem with several content providers, such as Rumble or Bitchute, is that, unless you want to see dozens of denunciations of the latest leftist atrocity, along with speculation about the hidden hands of the Jesuits, the Jews, or the Masons, with an occasional holistic health and survivalist tips, you would have no interest in them.
37 posted on 10/03/2022 6:22:03 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Jim W N

You are a sad, little bottom-boy who takes it up the backside from communists and who loves it. Get help.


38 posted on 10/03/2022 6:27:10 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Jim W N

Jim W N, did I hurt your cowardly feelings?


39 posted on 10/03/2022 6:53:19 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Wallace T.

You nailed it.


40 posted on 10/03/2022 8:55:02 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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