A federal appellate court just blew up the absurd argument that the world's largest carriers of speech and journalism can censor views they don't like. Next stop, the Supreme Court
Not to worry, Biden and his clown show will ensure they can covertly break the First Amendment at will. They're probably already onto the next 'secret program' to punish the wrongthinkers such as yourself.
Alex is correct that if this doesn't stop it will extend to banks,credit card cos etc. Hopefully SCOTUS will uphold this decision cuz if not we are in serious trouble as liberals will be able to get away with anything
A harbinger of a smidge of sanity returning to the public square? One can only hope & pray. A few years ago, I would have been ecstatic to read this. Unfortunately, our Supreme Court has been showing some signs of compromised Justices when it comes to truly "upholding certain freedoms enshrined in the Constitution." (Allowing vax mandates for military and refusing to honor religious exemptions, as just one of several examples.) When/if they rule in favor of the citizen over the platform censorship, I'll celebrate.
Any argument favoring suppression of legal speech is disgusting, made by disgusting entities, in furtherance of disgusting ends. It’s amazing we’ve moved so far backward in this day and age.
"mostly directed at conservatives"? Now that is the understatement of the decade. I have yet to hear ONE Dem share with me a friend who has been censored...not ONE.
I am not one of those who believes that if the SC affirms the 5th Circuit decision--which they should--then these media megaliths will just accept it and obey. More likely they will just get more clever in continuing to do what they do now. More years ago than I care to recall, I was an IRS Official in the Chief Counsel's Office participating in a taxpayer's conference of right. At that time, I was but a lowly docket attorney. Counsel for the taxpayer made an argument on behalf of his client based upon a Supreme Court decision. The IRS official in charge of the conference matter of factly told the taxpayer's representative that "we don't follow that Court decision over here." When that happened, counsel for the taxpayer as well as myself must have looked like South Park characters with mouths open in disbelief. Well, I believe that the mentality of those who run the social media outlets possess a mentality not far removed from that time serving bureaucratic moron who uttered the stupidity in question. One of my goals as an IRS official had been to rise up in the organization sufficiently so that I could control the pathology level. Until the day I resigned, I had achieved my objective.
If there were no other reason, I would vote again for Trump simply for the superb job he did in his judicial appointments. Those appointments are bearing sweet fruit...
Good. I was permanently banned from Twitter for these statements regarding the vaccines, each of which is unequivocally true:
“This bad idea is STILL being employed all around the world . . . Thousands of College kids who are zero risk of Covid are being forced to take these useless medicines in order to pursue their educations.”
“Why is Twitter adding a “stay informed” warning to my tweet questioning college vaccine/booster mandates? Covid presents virtually no risk to kids in that age group, and do nothing to prevent transmission or infection. There is ZERO rationale for coercive mandates.”
“If you are young and healthy, your risk of Covid hosp or death is zero. Why would you take a vaccine that provides no benefit but does carry (at least) myocarditis, blood clot, sperm motility and menstrual system risks?”
Big Win! Alex, thank you for the courage to carry this through. Far more productive and courageous than our useless politicians who rather are bought or have no idea what to do.
I was just suspended on Facebook for calling Russians savages in response to a post about their atrocities. I'm going to tweet this out and tag Facebook and meta
Liked this so hard I bruised my finger
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but apparently they still turn.
I came in here to like!!! We needed some good news this week! On to the fight over vax mandates!
Not to worry, Biden and his clown show will ensure they can covertly break the First Amendment at will. They're probably already onto the next 'secret program' to punish the wrongthinkers such as yourself.
Alex is correct that if this doesn't stop it will extend to banks,credit card cos etc. Hopefully SCOTUS will uphold this decision cuz if not we are in serious trouble as liberals will be able to get away with anything
A harbinger of a smidge of sanity returning to the public square? One can only hope & pray. A few years ago, I would have been ecstatic to read this. Unfortunately, our Supreme Court has been showing some signs of compromised Justices when it comes to truly "upholding certain freedoms enshrined in the Constitution." (Allowing vax mandates for military and refusing to honor religious exemptions, as just one of several examples.) When/if they rule in favor of the citizen over the platform censorship, I'll celebrate.
Any argument favoring suppression of legal speech is disgusting, made by disgusting entities, in furtherance of disgusting ends. It’s amazing we’ve moved so far backward in this day and age.
It is incredible to me that we are on edge worrying that the courts would find otherwise on this.
"mostly directed at conservatives"? Now that is the understatement of the decade. I have yet to hear ONE Dem share with me a friend who has been censored...not ONE.
I am not one of those who believes that if the SC affirms the 5th Circuit decision--which they should--then these media megaliths will just accept it and obey. More likely they will just get more clever in continuing to do what they do now. More years ago than I care to recall, I was an IRS Official in the Chief Counsel's Office participating in a taxpayer's conference of right. At that time, I was but a lowly docket attorney. Counsel for the taxpayer made an argument on behalf of his client based upon a Supreme Court decision. The IRS official in charge of the conference matter of factly told the taxpayer's representative that "we don't follow that Court decision over here." When that happened, counsel for the taxpayer as well as myself must have looked like South Park characters with mouths open in disbelief. Well, I believe that the mentality of those who run the social media outlets possess a mentality not far removed from that time serving bureaucratic moron who uttered the stupidity in question. One of my goals as an IRS official had been to rise up in the organization sufficiently so that I could control the pathology level. Until the day I resigned, I had achieved my objective.
If there were no other reason, I would vote again for Trump simply for the superb job he did in his judicial appointments. Those appointments are bearing sweet fruit...
Good. I was permanently banned from Twitter for these statements regarding the vaccines, each of which is unequivocally true:
“This bad idea is STILL being employed all around the world . . . Thousands of College kids who are zero risk of Covid are being forced to take these useless medicines in order to pursue their educations.”
“Why is Twitter adding a “stay informed” warning to my tweet questioning college vaccine/booster mandates? Covid presents virtually no risk to kids in that age group, and do nothing to prevent transmission or infection. There is ZERO rationale for coercive mandates.”
“If you are young and healthy, your risk of Covid hosp or death is zero. Why would you take a vaccine that provides no benefit but does carry (at least) myocarditis, blood clot, sperm motility and menstrual system risks?”
Big Win! Alex, thank you for the courage to carry this through. Far more productive and courageous than our useless politicians who rather are bought or have no idea what to do.
Never forget:
The most insidious way to change free speech is to change the meaning of words.
So even if the Supreme Court rules in favor that doesn't mean we still do not have a threat against our democracy.
That's the unseen...
I was just suspended on Facebook for calling Russians savages in response to a post about their atrocities. I'm going to tweet this out and tag Facebook and meta
Keep after it!