Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
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Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#2“When a private company says take your content elsewhere, no one's First Amendment rights are violated.”
I think the concern is moreso regarding massive corporations like Facebook and Twitter working together in lockstep to remove people from their platform that they ideologically disagree with, thus preventing them from reaching their audience.
If Twitter wants to curate which people are allowed to post, then they are a publisher and should be regulated as such. That also means that they need to be held responsible for everything on their platform that they don’t remove.
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#3Maybe it's a fine article, but I didn't make it past "imagined anti-conservative bias"
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#4Maybe it's a fine article, but I didn't make it past "imagined anti-conservative bias"
It is imagined. The bias is against hate-speech and restricting the real, actual rights of others from discrimination and bias.
If the conservative platform has devolved to dog-whistling or outright hate speech, calling for interstate armed conflict etc... then yea it's gonna seem like an "anti-conservative" bias.
Since you didn't make it past that part, I'll save you the trouble. The case so laughably lacks legal merit it's already a joke.
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#5“When a private company says take your content elsewhere, no one's First Amendment rights are violated.” I think the concern is moreso regarding massive corporations like Facebook and Twitter working together in lockstep to remove people from their platform that they ideologically disagree with, thus preventing them from reaching their audience. If Twitter wants to curate which people are allowed to post, then they a…
No such thing as "publisher vs platform". That's political propaganda.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#6Clearly unconstitutional, they're going to waste money on going through the federal courts, cry when the big bad feds tell them to follow federal law, and some politicians get a pat on the back from their votebase.
Make your own social media that is actually moderated and legal. There's no monopoly on servers, anyone can do it and have been. There's plenty of rack owners that vote red.
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#7Maybe it's a fine article, but I didn't make it past "imagined anti-conservative bias"
It is imagined. The bias is against hate-speech and restricting the real, actual rights of others from discrimination and bias. If the conservative platform has devolved to dog-whistling or outright hate speech, calling for interstate armed conflict etc... then yea it's gonna seem like an "anti-conservative" bias. Since you didn't make it past that part, I'll save you the trouble. The case so laughably lacks legal me…
> The bias is against hate-speech
What exactly is hate speech? There are some people out there who think stating clear biological reality about a certain topic is the most vile hate speech imaginable, yet others would call that same behavior stating clear scientific fact.
Or better yet. Have you ever played the “______ is racist” game? Search literally any noun and “is racist” in a search engine and you’ll find references to virtually every human activity being called racist at some point or another: including gardening, hiking, and milk.
If anything can be labeled as hateful when convenient, the conditions for honest discourse online seem to become impossible.
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#8Scotus should punish states that pass obviously unconstitutional nonsense. It's vexatious litigation, it shows contempt for the court and the constitution. If Florida can't legislate like a grown up state, put them under direct federal control for a few years. They can go back to being a territory and we'll let Puerto Rico have their reps for a while.
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#9Scotus should punish states that pass obviously unconstitutional nonsense. It's vexatious litigation, it shows contempt for the court and the constitution. If Florida can't legislate like a grown up state, put them under direct federal control for a few years. They can go back to being a territory and we'll let Puerto Rico have their reps for a while.
This would be a fantastic way to eliminate the unconstitutional gun laws passed in many states.
Re: Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law; It's Terrible
#10Scotus should punish states that pass obviously unconstitutional nonsense. It's vexatious litigation, it shows contempt for the court and the constitution. If Florida can't legislate like a grown up state, put them under direct federal control for a few years. They can go back to being a territory and we'll let Puerto Rico have their reps for a while.
This would be a fantastic way to eliminate the unconstitutional gun laws passed in many states.
yeah, itd pretty tiring seeing unregulated militias trying to overthrow the governme t