Sunday, January 02, 2022

Very worrisome …

… Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment.

… the key point raised by these last threats from House Democrats is an often-overlooked one: while the First Amendment does not apply to voluntary choices made by a private company about what speech to allow or prohibit, it does bar the U.S. Government from coercing or threatening such companies to censor. In other words, Congress violates the First Amendment when it attempts to require private companies to impose viewpoint-based speech restrictions which the government itself would be constitutionally barred from imposing.

Something must be done to get these clowns to keep their inner despot to themselves. 

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