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U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Apple for Info on Alleged Free Speech Suppression
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Did you listen to any of the hearings?
I stand by "None if it is alleged" since the allegations are not that the government used or threatened to use its prosecutorial powers unless these social media companies suppressed speech the government didn't like.
Where things get grey is several republican house members threatening to introduce bills that will essentially allow social media companies to be held liable for speech if these social media companies don't allow any speech on their platform that these republican house members deem positive for them. Regardless of if that speech is in violation of these companies TOS. Now, while that might not be threat of prosecution, it is certainly governmental interference.
I don't think this will go well for republicans but if we are going to have hearings over government overreach I would like to see hearings on how and why the separation of church and state has basically disappeared.
Your conspiracy theories, aren't proof of malfeasance
Free speech is free until it isn’t. The constitution doesn’t give you the right to yell “FIRE” in a crowded theater… 👀
Actually yes, it does and your absolute is wrong. That’s a very bad example that comes from a bad editing of Oliver Wendell Holmes opinion.
You can yell fire if you think there’s a fire. You can yell fire if you’re an actor on stage. You can yell fire in many other occasions.
Yes, you can yell 'fire' in a crowded theater
SCOTUS Justice Alito recently repeated the common misconception that "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater" is unprotected speech.
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Yes. I did. Anything any political party does that’s frivolous and reactionary is a waste of time.
I’m above petty surface level arguments about Republican vs. Democrat.
How do you know that? So far, it hasn't been tried.
Seems pretty clear to me. Hate speech is not violence, no matter how it triggers anger in you. Physically assaulting someone else for their free speech, what ever that speech is, is violence.
Now that should help stop inflation. 
Translation: "These companies didn't let us lie about COV19 without putting up some notes about misinformation and now we're mad, we have narrow control over the house, and by god we're going to use that to pander to our conspiracy theory loving base instead of helping the country on anything actually important!"
Like, look, there's a lot to be focused on with big tech companies and social media, but what Jim Jordan is focusing on is just being able to rant to a low information hard-right base in advance of 2024. He just wants to says "big tech" "woke" and "lie" in some sort of order as many times as possible, no matter how thin the reasoning, on camera.
Like, look, there's a lot to be focused on with big tech companies and social media, but what Jim Jordan is focusing on is just being able to rant to a low information hard-right base in advance of 2024. He just wants to says "big tech" "woke" and "lie" in some sort of order as many times as possible, no matter how thin the reasoning, on camera.
Actually, free speech is violated, whenever anyone or organization censors it. You're confusing unconstitutional censorship of free speechwith government censorship of free speech. Our founders place such a premium on free political speech so as to preclude government from interfering with it. That private individuals and organizations aren't so encumbered doesn't make the freedom to free speech any less necessary.
The problem we have now is that government has been coordinating, colluding with private industry and using them as a proxy actor to interfere with speech while pretending that private industry is in no way, directly or indirectly, being compelled by government agencies and political parties to engage in censorship so politicians can wear a fig leaf of disassociation. Like it or not, the "Twitter files" and the current hearings in congress are exposing their illicit relationship of political coercion.
If Jim Jordan thinks this is suppression of speech wait until he finds out about ag-gag laws across the country.
He is really going to lose his ****. Just kidding he doesn't really care about suppression of speech unless he feels talking about it helps him politically.
He is really going to lose his ****. Just kidding he doesn't really care about suppression of speech unless he feels talking about it helps him politically.
Nice way to wiggle around. You don’t have the right to yell fire in a crowded theater, as an audience member when there is none as a way to cause panic in the theater. While flying on a passenger Airplane, you don’t have the right to call out to everyone “I have a bomb and it’s about to go off”, again only to cause panic.Actually yes, it does and your absolute is wrong. That’s a very bad example that comes from a bad editing of Oliver Wendell Holmes opinion.
You can yell fire if you think there’s a fire. You can yell fire if you’re an actor on stage. You can yell fire in many other occasions.
Yes, you can yell 'fire' in a crowded theater
SCOTUS Justice Alito recently repeated the common misconception that "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater" is unprotected speech.
Unless they were coerced into doing it by the government. Or unless there were effecting the outcome of an election. Political speech has even less restrictions than free speech. Then you add the fact that they were lying to protect one candidate and harm another candidate means that they have to register as part of the political process, which they did not. So by suppressing the speech of political candidates they were breaking the law.
They obviously have not, most of these deniers are waiting for an exposé on CNN (Clinton News Network).
They can always ignore the subpoenas. That's the approach Jim Jordan himself took when served with a subpoena by the January 6th Committee.
Apple de-platformed many app developers between 200 and 2022 from participating In the Apple App Store because Apple disagreed with the political opinions of the people that were using the app developer’s apps and the app developer was not moderating content to Apple’s satisfaction.
For those of you that do not get out much, this is in fact called Fascism.
Don’t think there’s anything “curious” about Elon not being invited to this partisan clown show. He’s a true believer now so the GOP loves him.