Posted on 03/10/2024 6:49:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan got heated at Thursday’s hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government after a Democratic congressman said there are “limits” to free speech and the First Amendment.
Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman argued the committee is “chilling the federal government” to “undermine” the severity of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“We all agree with the First Amendment, but the problem is that the First Amendment is not absolute. It does not protect any single thing anyone says, and there are limits, and that’s important,” Goldman said. “And what this committee has been trying to do for the last year and a half is to chill the federal government for monitoring what is going on on social media and otherwise out there so that misinformation and disinformation can run rampant on Elon Musk’s social platform and every other social platform so that they, the Republicans, can benefit from it in the November election. That’s why this committee exists and we have gotten no evidence to support any of these allegations.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
That explains it.....lol.
Drop Goldman into Gaza.
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If there are limits on speech, there is absolutely no free speech...
Laws are all about "harm".
But this "hurt someone's feelings" as a crime...is an absurdity.
Bkmk
The limits also apply to laws protecting progressives from being shot
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