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From: maximusheadroom@gmx.com
In news:obm5bila8f3eheng39b6k4t4ek5knnropd@4ax.com, Governor Swill
typed:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 09:25:10 -0700, Josh Rosenbluth
wrote:
>> On 7/15/2023 8:32 AM, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>> The overreaching fuck Doughty's order will be vacated. It is
>>> unconstitutional. A judge cannot tell executive branch officials with
>>> whom they may and may not speak.
>> The decision may well be reversed. But, if an executive branch official
>> "significantly encourages" (*) a private party to censor speech, it
>> seems to me the First Amendment has been violated and judges shutting
>> down the official from such encouragement is proper.
>> (*) Blum v. Yaretsky (1982)
> Government requests to media have been used as long as there have been
> governments and media. FDR requested the media not show him actually in his
> wheelchair. Photographers agreed knowing that confidence in the President
> was vital.
> The media acquiesced to the Bush administration's requests in the lead up to
> Iraq and let's don't forget his famous ban of media photographing returning
> coffins.
> I don't see what the hullaballo is all about. The government asks social
> media to do something about the bots and liars who are doing their best to
> undermine our Republic...
Except many of those government-designated "liars" were telling the truth.
I wondered what kind of statist would support Biden's "Ministry of Truth."
> ... and some right wing radicals who think the Nazis had
> the right idea ...
Godwin's Law.
> ... go before the SCOTUS, which they can't wait to tear down,
It seems nowdays it's the pinkies who can't wait to destroy SCOTUS.
> ... asking it for permission to call in the bulldozers.
No, it's the pinkies who want to bury our freedom of speech.
> Wtf is wrong with people?
Indeed!
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