Posted on 01/30/2024 2:31:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
Maybe see if she can get Trump to “defame” her.
I know which fake FR “conservatives” won’t be barking on this thread...
Never forget that “Qualified Immunity” was created out of thin air by the supreme Court and it should be ABOLISHED
As opposed to selling print subscriptions, advertisements both online and in print, and clicks on a "mainstream" news website? Or ads on a Youtube video? There is no material difference on this question of "benefit". News gathering and dissemination is not a non-profit enterprise. They get a benefit.
Good for her for exposing a law that never should have been on the books! (Even if she had no idea she was doing so.)
Our system should be the opposite of qualified immunity as all gov ultimately operates behind the barrel of a gun. They should be held to nearly impossibly high standards and the punishment for misbehaving government agents should devastate their entire lives.
IANAL, but how does this law not violate the Supreme Court rulings on Prior Restraint? There is a lot of case law saying that a law prohibiting release of information cannot be upheld unless it poses immediate danger. In this case, the Texas law doesn’t prohibit the release, it simply prohibits inquiry - that is basically the same thing. If you cannot ask, you cannot publish the information you would ask for. This should be appealed to the USSC.
Based on her business made, it appears she is more of an ‘influencer”.
That said, what possible reason could there be for criminalizing the publication of facts?
The ruling should not hinge on the term “journalist”.
The First Amendment is for all of us.
So many indoctrinated bozos think of the media as their “protectors” rather than understanding the media has been a crass, biased, greedy, and seriously-corrupt industry since approximately Gutenberg.
That faint noise you hear is Mark Twain laughing his arse off.
That said, what possible reason could there be for criminalizing the publication of facts?
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I share your concern for the innocents involved. I do not share your inclination to criminalize activity which is merely tactless, tasteless, or boorish.
I do not share your inclination to criminalize activity
The judges who ruled against her did so for the obvious purpose of limiting the power of citizen journalists while amplifying that of the mainstream.
Just who are they? No sense making an accusation without naming them.......
The police are their own worst enemy.
This ruling brings contempt upon the court; the Laredo police actions bring contempt upon the entire ‘profession’ of policing.
Indeed.
When cops abuse the enormous power We the People give them, they must be held personally accountable.
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