Posted on 02/24/2024 5:53:49 PM PST by thecodont
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a pair of cases out of Texas and Florida that could force major social media platforms to carry posts from Donald Trump or others who lie about elections being stolen or obliquely encourage election-related violence. A ruling in favor of these states would turn the First Amendment upside down and create the conditions for undermining American democracy. If there wasn’t so much else swirling around our elections and democracy right now, this case would be commanding everyone’s attention.
Moody v. NetChoice LLC and NetChoice LLC v. Paxton arise out of the actions that Facebook, Twitter (now X), and other social media companies took in removing Trump from their platforms after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump had been relentlessly calling the 2020 election results into question despite having no reliable evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities. In an infamous tweet in December 2020, he encouraged his supporters to come to Washington for “wild” protests on Jan. 6, the day that Congress would be counting the states’ Electoral College votes to confirm Joe Biden as the election victor. After Trump and his supporters spoke in speeches on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, a crowd stormed the Capitol. The violent incident left 140 law enforcement officers injured (four later died by suicide) and four protesters dead. After Trump failed to immediately condemn the violence and call for the siege to end, the platforms had enough, determining that Trump had violated their terms of service and needed to be removed.
In response to the removal of Trump and concern over what they call “censorship” of conservatives, Florida and Texas each passed laws that make content moderation difficult if not impossible for major social media companies.
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Richard...you must think that you and your group don’t LIE ABOUT THINGS.
We are NOT neanderthals...Stupid Dick...we have the ability to think AND FIND OUT THE TRUTH FOR OURSELVES.
Never heard of you before...hope NEVER TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN.
The current Supreme Court has gotten more democrats elected then any other group.
Yet Trump did exactly that and Twitter deleted the tweet.
“…to carry posts from Donald Trump or others who lie about elections being stolen…”
Lie? How does one ascertain a lie without debate? Who owns the truth to the degree that they can say what is a lie and ban it outright? Wouldn’t these same people say Rush Limbaugh lied thru his teeth in various ways for three hours a day? How come he wasn’t driven off the public airwaves? Why do these people fear debate? Because they’re lying that’s why.
Hah! Bingo!
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