Posted on 05/27/2020 8:10:55 AM PDT by kevcol
President Trump on Wednesday threatened to strongly regulate or close down social media platforms if they silence conservative voices, stepping up his criticism after Twitter attached fact-checking context to Mr. Trumps tweets for the first time on Tuesday.
Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen, the president said on Twitter.
We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We cant let a more sophisticated version of that
happen again, the president said.
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I gave you no such answer. You have yet to explain how government regulation of speech is allowed by the First Amendment. Its quite simple. It doesnt take a philosopher to understand that Congress shall pass no law.... If you have some basis in natural law that compels the government to override the Constitution and force private people and entities to engage in government enforced speech lets hear it.
" I did understand however, that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government -- that nation -- of which that constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it."
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