A panel of judges Thursday invoked the mob in describing the federal government’s behavior and accused it of “strong-arming” social media companies, using “not-so-veiled threats” and holding “secret meetings.” The bizarre rhetoric came in oral arguments over a district court decision that barred wide swaths of the government from flagging misinformation to social media companies.
The disingenuousness of the 5th Circuit Judges in their rhetoric is staggering!
So, having the government advise social media companies about lies and propaganda being spread on their platforms that are killing people is equivalent to a mob boss telling an underling to “take care” of someone they don’t like? I mean, how is this even stated in a serious judicial forum? The absurdity of it really is astounding, it’s just hard to believe that anyone could really believe that telling people information that could kill them should be protected from government advising people of the facts.
If this actually became policy, then the government could be blocked from sharing the facts about scientific discoveries, medical advancements, or even safety bulletins…after all, if you think that you know better than the government about driving through flooded streets then it impinges on your freedom to have them try to stop you. The judges should know better than to play with this fire, they are setting up a system where the government can’t fight back against lies and propaganda spread by right wing sources…note that they are just fine with that, I’m sure they would find a way to rule the opposite way if it was a Republican government trying to stomp out left wing statements. Though, that would probably be the same as in this case, as the Republican government would be declaring climate change wasn’t real while left wingers were sharing scientific data and information about what’s actually happening.
Really, the 5th Circuit needs to be fixed, stuff like this shows they are just a propaganda mill for crazy conservative ideas…hopefully Biden can get some nominations onto the bench there to cut down on the nonsense.
Or finding 11,000 votes to reverse the outcome of an election.
This is where we are when a firmly stated false narrative holds the same weight had the truth.
Corrupt court says…
You are forgetting: Trump’s “ask” that Raffensperger “find” 11,780 votes was merely “aspirational,” … at most. Nothing to see there, citizen. Move along. Nothing to see. Move along. And: it is better to look forward, and not backward.
<<< Parenthetically, that is why crimes, once committed, should of course never be prosecuted. Prosecuting crimes would only divide us, instead of uniting us. I hope this clarifies… >>>
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issouri Solicitor General John Sauer — who opened his remarks with a hypothetical in which the government directs book sellers to partner with it in an book burning program for tomes critical of the administration
WTAF? Book sellers aren’t going to destroy their own property without being compensated for said property.
Booksellers buy books from the publisher. If the gov’t wants to shut down books unflattering to an administration then they’re going to have to go through the publisher not the seller.
So the takeaway is … “The government cannot interfere with our death-culting.”
Cases involving these issues will soon be decided on strictly freedom-of-religion grounds. Oh, wait.
Legislating from the bench again, I see…
Liken is a fucking ideologue and moron.
So…basically, irresponsible behavior that gets people killed needlessly is now seen as public good by the Federal 5th Circuit panel here?
It comes from the Ayn Rand school of infantile “thought” where “you are not the boss of me” is the supreme law of the land in all matters, unless and until a Democrat or progressive is saying it.
If the issue at hand were the dangers of mixing ammonia and bleach rather than COVID and vaccinations, would the 5th Circuit still consider the effort to remove incorrect information from social media overreach? (“One Weird Trick For Cleaning Everything!”)
What about the government requiring warning labels directly on ammonia and bleach bottles? Are they then behaving like thugs toward the manufacturers?
In other words, what you’re telling me, 5th Circuit, is that idiocy must be allowed to trump science, for freedom’s sake. Got it.
So… ‘during the pandemic’ and ‘that was going back to 2017 in this case’… I assume the Judges of the 5th Circuit will make it clear in their ruling that this is all the Trump administration, right?
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Right?
:sigh:
Antonin Scalia set the bar for sophistry laden Fox News sound bytes In his decisions. These clowns are just following that precedent.
Bingo. That is the (usually) unspoken GOP platform. This is who and what they are.
If I want to shoot ammobleach up my backside, who are you to stop me? Why do you hate America?!
““I’m certainly not equating the federal government with anybody in illegal, organized crime,” she added hastily. “But there are certain relationships that people know things without always saying the ‘or else.’””
Me: “Just to clarify, you honor, do you mean, like, for example, maybe, oh I dunno…POTUS asking a foreign leader for the favor of manufactured dirt on his political opponents while withholding their foreign aid or, gosh, let me think for a minute, perhaps the POTUS telling a Sec. of State that he needs to find a few thousand more votes after losing an election and that state’s votes were already certified??? Just trying to make sure we’re all on the same page here…”
