Posted on 03/18/2024 8:04:24 AM PDT by george76
the appeals panel agreed that several federal offices and agencies, including the White House .. violated the First Amendment by coercing the platforms’ content moderation decisions.
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A federal appeals court ... finding that several agencies likely violated the First Amendment.
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The original case was brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who alleged that federal officials unduly pressured social media firms to limit speech on their platforms, as they communicated concerns about posts related to the Covid pandemic or elections.
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The decision had an immediate impact. Following the district court’s order in July, the State Department canceled its standing monthly meeting with Facebook officials on election prep
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the appeals court concluded that the White House, the Surgeon General’s office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation likely violated the First Amendment by coercing social media platforms into moderating posts on their sites. It also said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention likely violated the First Amendment, though its actions were “not plainly coercive.”
The appeals court decision means that some federal agencies — the State Department, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — will not be subject to the injunction. But the offices found to have likely violated the First Amendment will still be subject to a more limited version of the order.
The appeals court vacated nine of the 10 prohibitions Doughty set out in the initial injunction. The one that remained is now modified “to exclusively target illegal conduct and provide the officials with additional guidance or instruction on what behavior is prohibited.” That’s intended to prevent the action from capturing “otherwise legal speech.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Our Feddie massahs have adopted a slogan made famous in the old Soviet Union. “Say anything you like. Just don’t say anything you don’t like.”
What does “likely” imply?
There is evidence. That’s not “likely.”
So who is going to prison for violating 18USC242?
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Just don’t say anything WE don’t like.
Reading this and not being a layer, I cant tell if this is a step forward or a step back. Seems like more judges threading needles trying to appease the fed monster.
The obama team are too big to jail
Then there’s 42USC1983. Civil damages can be substantial.
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This article is from a leftie mainstream media news site.
Are those folks finally waking up to Democrat villainy? Or is it just part of a grand strategy to push Biden aside, and replace him with someone even worse?
I’m betting it’s the lattter.
Should be death penalty or LWOP.
Do not do this.
Thank George Bush for the creation of the bloated Homeland Security apparatus
Then Obama and his band of DC Leninists we able to weaponize it.
No wonder they love each other.
So what’s the punishment or violating our constitutional rights?>
Seems like one more bit of TRUTH we learned about government thanks to the Trump era. And Musk’s Twitter files. Should be a monumental scandal. Like the Russia hoax.
bloated Homeland Security apparatus
And then along comes the pedophile president who opens the entire border to every terrorist and criminal who wants to just waltz across the border.
Headline & 2nd statement both use the word likely, while the first sentence says they ruled that they did violate the 1st amendment.
I say this, because this is the kind of reporting some female reports too often do at news sites like CNBC. It is just bad reporting in my opinion, and it frustrates me, as one can tell. 😋
No one ever goes to prison for violating people’s constitutional rights or breaking assorted federal laws in pursuit of republicans.
But we have to ban Tik tok so China doesn’t do the same thing our government is doing
Whatever happened to "terrorism," by the way?
We've been run out of Afghanistan, out of Iraq, out of Somalia. Iran and their proxies control the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. We've got wide open borders and Fed.gov flies in unvetted illegals from every corner of the globe. One would think there would be an islamic terrorist on every corner. Did we win Bush's "War on Terror" and they forgot to tell us?
And yet now, we are told the main terrorists the USA faces are "white supremacists." Weird.
Wake me up when the culprits are imprisoned in the GULAGs with the Jan. 6 pawns.
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