Posted on 03/18/2024 11:55:44 AM PDT by packagingguy
Free speech is on trial at the Supreme Court, but Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is no fan of the First Amendment. The Constitution, you see, limits the government. But leftists want unlimited government — which is why they hate the Constitution.
During Monday’s oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, formerly known as Biden v. Missouri, Jackson claimed to oppose any ruling in favor of Americans’ constitutional right to free speech if it limited the government’s ability to censor that speech via Big Tech.
“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” Jackson told Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga.
Jackson expressed skepticism at reigning in the federal government’s unconstitutional censorship pressure campaign because “some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country” that goes far beyond simply posting its own speech or engaging in constitutional means of securing citizens from violence.
“You seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” Jackson. “So can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”
Aguiñaga clarified that he wasn’t arguing for a complete ban on all interaction between the government and social media companies, but for that relationship to stay within constitutional bounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
She doesn’t even know what the hell she’s talking about she’s just a communist dope with no respect for the Constitution.
If I want to get on my soapbox during the worst pandemic ever to hit earth and scream “don’t take the medicine! “ that’s my God given right to Free Speech and your only way to counter me is to tell people I’m wrong.
Just like with every other single example anyone can think of.
I haven't made it through the entire transcript yet, but Alito took some serious whacks at the government's attorney early on.
In other words, The Constitution is antithetical to tyranny.
Hooda thunkit?
The Wright brothers would be in jail and Langley’s plane would still be burried in the banks of the river running through the swamp.
No government has ever concerned itself with censoring falsehoods.
The only thing any government has ever tried to censor is the truth.
Another Ruth Bader Ginsburg.. She’ll never make a proper ruling actually supporting the constitution..
Words from the woman who doesn’t know what a woman is.
“Justice Jackson:
“I understood our First Amendment jurisprudence to require heightened scrutiny of government restrictions of speech, but not necessarily a total prohibition when you’re talking about a compelling interest of the government to ensure, for example, that the public has accurate information in the context of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.””
No doubt, she is referring to accurate information from the government like... the vaccines are safe and effective, the Antifa riots were mostly peaceful, white supremacy is the main threat to “our democracy”, Jan. 6 was a violent insurrection, and there was no election fraud/theft in 2020.
Yeah... we really want to ensure that that kind of government “information” continues unchallenged, Ketanji. And trust me when I say... We, the People have nothing but complete trust in anything you have to say on the matter, or in any ruling you will make on these matters. Honest.
Nobody’s hamstringing ANYBODY.
AS THE FOUNDERS DECIDED...THE ANSWER TO A REPORTED “FACT”, MUST BE ANSWERED BY “WORDS, PROVEN FACTS, EMPIRICAL DATA, TESTIMONY...THEN...MORE AND MORE W O R D S.
THAT IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND WHAT IS MEANT BY ...MORE SPEECH...
But, they don’t have time to do that...that takes WORK to present the TRUE fact...
AND THIS, GIRLS AND BOYS, IS WHAT THE DIMOCRAPS DO NOT DO WELL.
What they do well is keep repeating and accusing the opponent of what they are doing..
THEY ARE MASTERS AT DOING THAT.
But not with me and many others who have figured out the SCAM.
But most of the article was mainly plain.
bingo
Watch This (12 min.) ! ! ! !
Mary Holland And Mike Davis Detail The Censorship Case In The Supreme Court
Dear Kunta Kinte Jackson, it's a feature, not a bug.
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