FBI and White House likely coerced social media platforms into removing posts, appeals court rules

CNBC ^ | SEP 11 2023 | Lauren Feiner

[csn vinnie]

Not plainly coercive? Like a visit from John Gotti’s lieutenant just suggesting you need to suppress statements critical of the Family is not coercive.

[Iron Munro]

Whatever happened to "terrorism," by the way?

Terrorism has been redefined.

Patriotism is the new terrorism.

Submission to unconstitutional federal power is the new patriotism.

[BenLurkin]

[DesertRhino]

No, W was not trying to prevent terrorism. If he did that he wouldn’t of let in 900,000 people from the Middle East in the aftermath of 9/11. Also very convenient that his DHS and patriot were ready to roll out immediately. No longer give him the benefit of the doubt.

[TornadoAlley3]

SCOTUS oral arguments seemingly favor the government in that the Court sees encouragement and not coercion. Some of the left Justices are throwing out wild hypotheticals in favor of government censorship.

[Eleutheria5]

Let the lawsuits begin!

[curious7]

Exactly! When are the individuals that did this and ordered it done going to be publicly beaten within an inch of their life as a warning to the rest of the bureaucracy? They do this because they don’t believe they have any skin in the game. That ought to change.

[Free Louie]

Maybe W was being noble. But I have no doubt Cheney saw big potential down the line. I should have pondered why Marxist professors of mine at UVA would confide that they actually liked Cheney .

[escapefromboston]

Good thing red China isn’t running all our social media sites