The liberal justices were piling on the attorney for the state and the conservative justices were mostly silent. Barrett seemed to agree that government should be able to silence social media posts that disagreed with the government’s position.
Those are exactly the ones that should NOT be silenced...
The liberal justices were piling on the attorney for the state and the conservative justices were mostly silent. Barrett seemed to agree that government should be able to silence social media posts that disagreed with the government’s position.
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For a case that was simple and straight forward, the Court rushed into the weeds and left me very uneasy with all the diversions and ginned up side issues. The First Amendment is a natural right protected by the Constitution and like all other rights is not to be abided except in the rarest of circumstances. Yet, the Court seemed overly sympathetic to the government continuing to collude with private entities to abridge the First Amendment right versus the citizens right to unfettered free speech. I don’t know what to make of it all, but the arguments left me nervous and feeling like few on the Court really understand the issue and the seriousness of the matter. Let’s hope they school themselves on past government censorship atrocities before they issue their opinion.