06 December 2022

Fundamentally Different

 While it might be perfectly legal for a private company to block speech it dislikes...

It is forbidden for the government to even request that a private company do so.

That's what the 1st Amendment is all about with regards to speech.

If the FBI and CIA demanded that Twitter suppress speech, we have a Constitutional crisis on our hands.

And it fucking sucks that nobody is going to do fuck all about it.

Posted by Angus McThag at 22:38
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  1. Paul Chappell07 December, 2022 15:48

    Yeah, the release of that information from Twitter is "neat" and quite probably damning... I suspect you are correct that in the end nothing at all will happen. I mean it proves a LOT of folks on the other side were correct all along and anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature knew that to be true, but at the end of the day what is going to change or be done about it? After watching the worst punishment for lying to the court and actually fabricating evidence for an attorney be a slap on the wrist and not even a suspension of his license? Meh, I'll be far more surprised if anyone actually takes a fall for this. But cynics and surprises only being good ones I suppose...

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