Posted on 10/22/2023 5:13:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The good news is that a reckoning with the Biden administration’s policy of telling companies to censor things they don’t like is coming. The Supreme Court will take up the Louisiana ban on the administration censoring political opponents via private companies. The bad news is that Roberts, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett decided to sign on letting the Biden administration go on doing it for another year because the First Amendment is just a theory.
Read the Alito dissent on the majority issuing a stay on an order blocking the Biden administration’s censorship. (Alito was joined by Thomas and Gorsuch.)
Today, however, a majority of the Court, without undertaking a full review of the record and without any explanation, suspends the effect of that injunction until the Court completes its review of this case, an event that may not occur until late in the spring of next year. Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government, and therefore today’s decision is highly disturbing.
This case began when two States, Missouri and Louisiana, and various private parties filed suit alleging that popular social media companies had either blocked their use of the companies’ platforms or had downgraded their posts on a host of controversial subjects, including “the COVID–19 lab leak theory, pandemic lockdowns, vaccine side effects, election fraud, and the Hunter Biden laptop story.”
According to the plaintiffs, Federal Government officials “were the ones pulling the strings,” that is, these officials “‘coerced, threatened, and pressured [the] social-media platforms to censor [them].’”
… To stop this “campaign,” the injunction, as it now stands, prohibits the covered officials from doing two things. First, they may not “coerce” social media platforms to make “content-moderation decisions.” Second, they may not “meaningfully contro[l]” social media platforms’ “content-moderation” efforts. Displeased with these...
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Censoring free speech at the request of a government official is a clear violation of the First Amendment. It’s also a completely illegal political contribution-in-kind.
They are on the take... And taxpayers are paying for it with spy subsidies.
Not according to Barret and Kavanaugh and the leftist court cabal.
This is garbage on its face but here we are.
-fJRoberts- !!!!
These sick, cowardly bastards are destroying us.
Compromised all the way back to Roberts on Obamacare, a tax.
How are the those last two Trump picks working out for us and the country?
Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government
Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government
Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government
I’m sad this free speech thing isn’t a bigger story now. People are literally getting jailed for trolling. Sued and losing for making fun of people. On big sites and small. In USA and around the world.
Just letting them hang themselves !
The US Constitution is dead but I think it died back in 1913 given all I know of hisfory.
bump
Almost from Day #1, Barret and Kavanaugh have been pathetic when it comes to issues of freedom & liberty...
The Republican Women’s SCOTUS torch, passed to Barret, remains unchanged on these issues... Another disaster...
Two filthy cowards who will not stand for freedom and against tyranny. Could DeSantis do worse?
Rapey party boy, closet homo child trafficker and Amy Conehead Barrett strikes again….
Actual fascism in action.
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“the way back to Roberts on Obamacare”
I remember that well, hearing it while in the car between Knoxville Airport and home. Pissed and sick.
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