Even some of the right-wing justices hitched up an eyebrow Monday when a couple of red states argued against nearly any government intervention in social media content moderation.
Perhaps they read the words…“radicalized on the internet”…then killed.
Real cat. Jaguar tracks in the Amazon.
The whackadoodles keep pushing the envelope toward their extreme interpretations of the Constitution, but their supposed rights to do that belong only to them. They insist that there are no allowable restrictions on guns, but the government can put as many restrictions on (the other guy) voting as they can do as long as they get their preferred winner.
The case is a banner example of the culture war content increasingly filling the high court’s docket, helped along by (often Trump-appointed) lower judges’ willingness to grant sweeping relief far beyond what the plaintiffs seek.
That’s a nice, simple, clear, accurate recap of the situation.
Cats
And there were the flat-out lies in the arguments accepted by the Fifth Circuit…
Having Kavanaugh slap Alito’s comment down like that pretty much ensures that the entire case is as dead as dead can be. Perhaps Thomas will dissent, but I suspect none of the eight others will see any merit in this case whatsoever after today.
Democracy was always a sop. Now there are no unions, its just one dumb rich son passing it off to another.
One man had to denude every main street in the West in order to achieve in space what democracy achieved in the 1960s.
The spaceship was no shit shaped like a giant bulbous dong. We are through the looking glass.
I still don’t understand what the Feds allegedly did, besides participate in speech.
Caption: Dear God, they are multiplying.
Persuaded the platforms to sometimes pull down their right-wing users’ speech.
And they’re STARING at me.
“I see that the White House and federal officials are repeatedly saying that Facebook and the federal government should be partners, ‘we’re on the same team,’ officials are demanding answers — ‘I want an answer, I want it right away’ — when they’re unhappy they curse them out, there are regular meetings, there is constant pestering of Facebook and some of the other platforms,” Alito complained, adding: “I cannot imagine federal officials taking that approach to the print media.”
Might that also be because print media and social media platforms are structurally fucking different, Mr. Supreme Court Justice? Setting aside whether editors and newsrooms are in actuality routinely chewed out by government officials, no print media is publishing every dumbass thought or lie of hundreds of millions of people every day the way social media does. Nor is any print media rejiggering the headlines and order of articles for every single reader in realtime based on an equation with 8,000 variables. It’s almost like they’re…completely different? Joshua ben Joseph on a Pogo Stick!
I keep saying: I am so fscking old, I remember when blatantly racist or misoygnistic comments, as well as calls for violence, were not considered core conservative principles.
But, times change, I suppose.
It could be argued that they didn’t need to be commented on in the past because they were accepted as core conservative principles. No need to explicitly state what everyone already accepts as “normal.”
Then trump happened.
Wack-a-doodles have existed since before radio. Today’s problem is wack-a-doodles get unlimited social media space to propose the craziest things and sell the most dangerous snake oil. Before social media it was difficult for wack-a-doodles to get space in the papers or on TV or radio. Some editor or producer would have to green light the crazy thought. Now days all comments get space leading to the mistaken notion that all ideas are equal.
Trouble comes in small packages!
Yup. It’s Calvinball.
So, the dog knows the cats will be planning to kill him, or may have even started already.
Their co-resident may be advised to heed his example.
I suspect Mr. Alito often smothers his intelligent thoughts in their cradle.
I suspect, in fact, this may have become reflexive for him.
