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To: olezip
The new law is about having to threaten a company to get them to honor the First Amendment.

The lawsuit is good. Only those that believe the 1st Amendment pertains to private business thinks it's a bad lawsuit. The 1st Amendment ONLY APPLIES to GOVERNMENT restricting freedom of speech, as this law may do. As a private business, you are free to restrict speech nearly as much as you want.

As someone else point out, however, the lawsuit does mention restricting the editorializing capabilities of private business. That's fine. I can accept that. Part of that, however, is that they have revealed themselves as publishers in doing so, and they must be stripped of their protections as a simple "platform".

16 posted on 05/28/2021 8:07:04 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: dware

“they have revealed themselves as publishers in doing so, and they must be stripped of their protections as a simple “platform”.”

As publishers wouldn’t they have a greater claim on 1st amendment protections?

This may sound crazy, but maybe the government should target the networks for carrying platforms that censor and defraud users. They in turn could penalize the platforms.


29 posted on 05/28/2021 2:50:34 PM PDT by tsomer
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