Let me explain it to you like you are 5. The SAME consitutional principles that prevent Trump from unduly coercing Twitter to remove a Chrissy Tiegen tweet apply to the Biden administration unduly coercing Twitter to remove tweets it didn’t like about the Hunter laptop. Crazy I know! |
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The same intelligence services that were certain about WMDs in Iraq? The same intelligence services that said COVID might have come from a Wuhan lab? https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf |
Bottom line is there is no "absolute" freedom of speech as claimed upthread and there are in fact many types of speech which are illegal. Those goal posts are already moved. Speech directly threatening to kill or harm someone is a felony in most US jurisdictions. So why wouldn't speech that does in fact result in someone getting killed be completely exempt and unimpeachable? Trump's Big Lie got people killed. Anti-vaxxer lies got people killed. Again, we aren't talking about "you want to censor conservatives" bullshit. Since when does being a conservative require you to tell lies that get people killed? |
Who did Chrissy Tiegen or Hunter's laptop kill? Can we at least stick to toxic lies that DID get people killed? |
Because your take on how speech “got people killed” is incredibly attenuated and is far, far from passing 1A scrutiny. |
I think you might feel calmer if you actually informed yourself about how the 1A handles “dangerous” speech. https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/core-first-amendment-rights-are-implicated-in-this-supreme-court-case-about-true-threats |
There was no Biden administration when the laptop was be “censored”. That was the Trump administration |
1 million dead Americans disagree with this post. |
So, I am no longer allowed to disagree with the government health policies? The same government that decided saturated fat was bad and a low fat, high sugar diet is fine? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794145/ Hiow many millions has this killed? |
Disagree all you like. Tons of people disagreed during the height of Covid. But this case is going to the Supreme Court and the fifth circuit has made a mess of it. There has been no evidence the Biden WH coerced anyone. The government has a first amendment right as well. The government is allowed an opinion both public AND private. They can and should share information with companies in the interest of public safety and national security. |
Seems to me that you don't understand how science works. Maybe you are used to things like religious dogma where there are supposed eternal truths or something, and that any time something to the contrary is shown it's somehow a big lie that was orchestrated from the start? Seems you also are confusing government with science as well. We learn new things about nutrition all the time. But science being science, often comes across as murky, often with seemingly conflicting and contradictory information, because most research is typically a very narrow dive into one specific thing, and doesn't step back to look at all of the other adjacent research and present that out as well, in a way that the general public can understand. This for example is why people like you got confused about things like covid and myocarditis. You saw a study that showed rare instances of myocarditis found in people who got vaccinated. But then you didn't step back and look at the adjacent research that found that myocarditis was also found in unvaccinated people who got covid, and at MUCH higher rates than that of people who got vaccinated. And either way, there have been few governmental mandates around nutrition anyhow. And even when we did try to get people consuming more healthy foods, you shrieked and freaked out and rebelled in the most ludicrous and self-destructive ways.
So, you of all people have very little leg to stand on here. Again, over a million Americans died because of covid, many of those deaths could have been preventable but they were killed through ignorance, lies and conspiracy theories. Whereas, Hunter's laptop wasn't suppressed by the Biden administration, and didn't kill anyone. |
You clearly have not read the opinions and briefs in the case. The entanglement between the government and the social media platforms was intense. The government was basically managing moderation - both individual decisions on posts and moderation policy. I’m not sure how the case will turn out, but it was an extremely troubling amount of control the government was imposing over speech. Notably the government does not claim that the removed posts had no First Amendment protections. They claim they were just engaged in “persuasion.” Ask yourself how happy you would be if this degree of “persuasion” was exercised by the Trump Admin to control social media posts on an issue you care about? |
The more you post the more ignorant you seem about the actual constitutional issue. |
I wouldn’t characterize the outreach from the government as “intense”. The government has a duty to defend and protect. I’m much more concerned with one billionaire and a gaggle of tech twits making these decisions. Which is legally how it has to be, but it’s not great for the health of our democracy. |