Posted on 07/11/2023 4:50:43 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
When Judge Terry Doughty issued an injunction in Missouri v. Biden that banned the government from “specifically flagging content or posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding such to social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression”, all hell broke loose.
Evelyn Douek, a Stanford law professor, formerly of the Knight First Amendment Institute, warned that preventing the government from colluding with corporations to censor citizens would have a “chilling effect on communication between the government and platforms.”
In traditional free speech jurisprudence, ‘chilling effects’ were inflicted by the government, but Douek is worried that free speech might have a chilling effect on government censorship. After advocating, in cases like Lamont v. Postmaster General, that any interference with speech, no matter how odious including, in the aforementioned Supreme Court case, asking recipients of Communist propaganda to affirmatively agree to receive it, entailed a ‘chilling effect’, liberals don’t want to chill the censors, instead they’re worried that civil rights will chill censorship.
Even though it’s the height of summer, chilling effects on censorship were on display.
Liberals who might have once worried about free speech now fret that the government will be inhibited from censoring free speech. According to CNN, “Legal experts say that the order is overly broad and scholars on online misinformation warned that it could have a chilling effect on the government’s efforts to curtail lies about public health emergencies and elections.”
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Do they EVER listen to themselves?
It is speech delivered by their humanist god.
I wonder what Joe Shmoe Democrats think of this. Even life long Dem voters probably don’t like the idea of the government censoring people
“ Do they EVER listen to themselves?”
Oh, they hear themselves loud and clear.
You got to hand it to them, they can turn wrong into right and darkness into light. It’s the same with Schwab saying you will own nothing and be happy.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell, “1984”
Discrimination is equal rights.
Censorship is freedom of speech.
Transwoman is a woman.
Progressives, 2023
The agenda moves forward.
“...the government’s efforts to curtail lies about public health emergencies and elections.”
The proper way for the government to address what it considers “lies” is to publish what it considers “truth”, and let the public be the judge. But the effectiveness of that approach would depend on how much the public trusts the government.
Youd think so but....The ends always justify the means with these lemmings. Its about maintaining control of the narratives.... so as long as theyre on the ‘right side’ of the narratives.... why would they care? When presented with clear and obvious proof of govt censorship they attacked Musk for revealing it.
The list of hills Pedo Joe dems will be willing to die on is endless.
Pedophilia
Proxy war
Open borders
Soft on crime standards
Election fraud
Russiagate
......
Woe unto them who call good evil, and evil good.
The only truth is what they say is the truth? No, sorry. Government and media have lied repeatedly. Why would I believe anything either says?
Wasn’t Orwell’s work supposed to be a warning rather than an action plan?
You forgot the latest, “Diversity Is Unity”.
The most difficult and unbearable, literally unbearable, part for me, of all of the insanity, is that general population accepts and agrees. It is terrifying and truly unbearable
Democrats used to argue that slavery was the highest form of benevolence. Maybe they still do.
“”War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
Do they EVER listen to themselves? “
Yes they do and they believe it!
Male is female, 2+2=5, men can get pregnant, women can be husbands, men wives ...
They’ve gone way beyond any insanities that Orwell might have imagined.
The people we used to call liberals are not the people we're up against today. Today we're up against leftists and totalitarians out to destroy America.
“Even life long Dem voters probably don’t like the idea of the government censoring people”
Any democrat who actually cared about that already left the Democrat party a while back.
I disagree. It’s been my experience that lifelong democrats are more than OK with government AND non-government censorship, especially of their political opponents. Same way they’re OK with stripping us of all our other freedoms. Right to own guns. Right to vote. They’re OK with the news media acting as propaganda arms of the democratic party. They’re OK with censorship of conservatives on social media. They’re OK with fellow democrats in office abusing their positions to harass and persecute their political opponents. Which is why they jumped for joy each and everytime Trump got harassed. The raid on Mar a Lago. The indictments. The impeachments. The lawsuits.
One lifelong democrat told me that while he didn’t believe Biden won 2020 because of cheating, IF Biden did win thanks to election fraud, he was OK with it just as long as it got Trump out of the white house.
IF there is any such thing as lifelong democrats who are opposed to government censorship, they’re a very, very tiny minority in the democratic party.
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