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GREAT opinion piece.
1 posted on 01/12/2021 10:09:28 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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bump for later


2 posted on 01/12/2021 10:12:54 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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Ping


3 posted on 01/12/2021 10:14:26 AM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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I am certain that CJ John Roberts will have an op-ed in the WSJ tomorrow begging someone to bring a lawsuit against Section 230 so he and his fellow justices can immediately declare Section 230 to be unconstitutional.


4 posted on 01/12/2021 10:15:48 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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thanks for posting....i was unaware of the Railway case, super helpful.


5 posted on 01/12/2021 10:16:06 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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Think article is off base because Constitution prohibits only government from censoring, not everyone and anyone.


6 posted on 01/12/2021 10:17:55 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: LurkedLongEnough

If Lord of the Rings were real, Republicans would fall all over themselves to give Sauron back his property.

What’s next, Amazon can quarter troops in your home because they are not the goberment?


9 posted on 01/12/2021 10:29:17 AM PST by cdcdawg (Turn off Fox News! You can do it!)
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Great opinion piece—if we had actual rule of law.

Unfortunately, the legalization of massive voter fraud and its de facto ratification by the Supreme Court has nullified the Constitution.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.


13 posted on 01/12/2021 11:06:47 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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Without section 230 protections these companies would not be in a position to censor participant comments. This means that, through 230 law, the government is censoring participant comments. That’s a violation of Amendment 1 of the U.S. Constitution.


14 posted on 01/12/2021 11:14:20 AM PST by nagant
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Wasn’t the 1973 movie ROLLERBALL about sports being taken over by Big Tech?


17 posted on 01/12/2021 12:35:32 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Agreed - great opinion piece. Thanks for sharing.

I think a few people here either skipped the following or just didn’t understand it:

“Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors under existing legal doctrines. Using a combination of statutory inducements and regulatory threats, Congress has co-opted Silicon Valley to do through the back door what government cannot directly accomplish under the Constitution.

It is “axiomatic,” the Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” That’s what Congress did by enacting Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which not only permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech but immunizes them from liability if they do so.

The justices have long held that the provision of such immunity can turn private action into state action.”


19 posted on 01/12/2021 6:44:05 PM PST by occam's chainsaw (There are no simple answers.)
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