Posted on 06/26/2024 4:34:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Need to have a Butlerian Jihad against all these robots.
“Roberts is a traitor. The women are useless morons especially Barrett
Kavanagh is a cuck.”
By your count, that would make 6 reliable votes for the “center-left” majority of the Court.
Government coercion is censorship. Cooperating with it is not an exercise in free speech rights. It is just further proof that suppressing the liberty and freedoms of the everyday citizen is essential to advancing a Utopia of Elites and will not let something as paltry as our Constitution stand in their way.
Picture this: The former head of the NSA got put on the board of OpenAI. The future in front of us is going to be a struggle.
Jesus, lurker and Him alone.
I suspect McConnell and Graham approached him and said, we will not confirm W, Y, and Z / and canned his first three choices.
The Republicans pinned him down with Mueller and many wanted extensions of that fraudulent Investigation.
Kavanaugh tried to placate his critics by hiring only female clerks. It was a clear indication that the left-wing intimidation worked. He ain’t no Scalia, that’s for sure.
Guess its just one more silly precedent set by the left that Trump will get to enjoy when he is the President again.
This is a Jim Noble guest appearance.
I was chairman of the Rudy Giuliani 2008 FR caucus and survived the purge.
It was rough around here. Can anyone doubt that if my guy had been nominated instead of McCain, that we would have had Obama as a footnote to history?
I disagree with the author. The censorship was egregious but the plaintiffs in this case had no cause of action against the U.S. government. THEY were not censored; FACEBOOK was ... which means Facebook has the legal standing to sue the government over a First Amendment violation, not ordinary citizens or state governments.
No offense, but I was here in those rough-and-tumble days and I insisted back then that some lisping midget from New York City was never going to be elected President of the United States.
I go through a lot of paper and ink over a few months, but I really enjoy doing it. :)
They may have all sorts ways to shut out the conversation but, where's a will, there's a way...
You know, George Orwell was also known to pamphleteer for causes important to him.
You couldn't be more wrong. I suggest you read Alito's dissent. You fundamentally misunderstand what this case was about.
“who would stand athwart the tyranny of the administrative state”
The J6 fiasco clued me in on these champions.
Yeah... we got a problem, that’s for sure.
You gotta wonder how the whole apparatus became infested with vermin so completely and quickly. How does that happen?
Obviously it can, because it did. Now to figure out the how.
Note how much time and text he devotes to the alleged "harms" suffered by the plaintiffs in the case. For one thing, the claims of harm were specious at best. More importantly ... to the extent any of these people suffered any harm at all, their legal recourse would be against Facebook, not the U.S. government. (NOTE: Facebook would then have a strong incentive to pursue a third-party claim against the U.S. government in its defense against a lawsuit by these plaintiffs.)
The most compelling point in the court's decision is this (the highlighted item is mine):
The plaintiffs claim standing based on the "direct censorship" of their own speech as well as their "right to listen" to others who faced social-media censorship. Notably, both theories depend on the platform's actions -- yet the plaintiffs do not seek to enjoin the platforms from restricting any posts or accounts.
I'm surprised this case even made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, with this crippling flaw in it.
(Can anyone doubt that if my guy had been nominated instead of McCain, that we would have had Obama as a footnote to history?)
What went wrong, Jim?
You were right Jim, I like Rudy better than John.
Isn’t that something?
These guys really get the good jobs for some reason. Wasn’t the CEO of Bud Light also from the IC?
The points are valid.
In essence they pointed the fingers at the platforms.
Unf the reality is that they were coerced by the govt.
Doughty found that water is indeed wet, had SCOTUS not heard this appeal, his ruling stands.
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Let’s make this a wrap, ok???
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