Category: First Amendment

Not a Cure-All But a Start

Whatever the ultimate outcome of that case, Congress can take steps to discourage censorship by proxy. Shellenberger argues that it should stop funding groups like the ISO and “mandate instant reporting of all communications between government officials and contractors with social media executives relating to content moderation.” [More]

True, but don’t expect criminals who routinely ignore “the supreme Law of the Land” with impunity to obey it, or not develop workarounds, such as making public statements where they can be confident their cues will be picked up.

Besides, the biggest violators would be the ones voting on it.

The Way Things Are

“I wish more people had shown up,” Trump supporter Philippe Lejeune told the outlet. [More]

Well of course MAGA was outnumbered. It’s New York. And some of us have learned to avoid crowds. Especially after we see what happened the last time and worry that low-hanging fruit morons in buffalo hats with no sense of effective personal conduct are going to give the feds all the cover they needed to provoke, entrap, and record us for pickup and prosecution 6 months later while the guy whose words galvanized us into action is fully occupied with taking care of Number One.

We also see the Antifa types get away with a whole lot more and realize it’s all part of the controlled media plan.

And there’s another reality I’ve never been able to crack.

Two Down, Eight to Go

Reversal is urgent because the Second Circuit’s opinion threatens basic First Amendment rights at a time when the First Amendment is under widespread attack. [More]

That’s what happens when tyrants have conditioned themselves to ignore the Second Amendment with impunity.

[Via Michael G]

Future Lawfare Practitioners of America

Five security guards, threats of discipline required to protect free speech talk at DU law school [More]

And just think how many Marxist future attorneys, prosecutors, and judges at all levels are being churned out by the subversion mills.

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Angry brainwashed “students” who are ostensibly there to learn presume themselves qualified to lecture.

Al Capp sure had it nailed:

[Via Michael G]

We’re the Only Ones Unsigning Enough

“Friend was violating no law by standing on the sidewalk and displaying his sign, and [Police Sgt. Richard] Gasparino had no lawful reason to order him to desist from that conduct,” the appeals court ruled. [More]

If he wanted to engage in police-approved speech in Stamford, he should have become a paid gunsnitch.

That said, it’s probably unfair for me to judge Sgt. Gasparino until I’ve goose-stepped a mile in his jackboots.

Kinda helps explain why Connecticut is so hot for unending citizen disarmament schemes…

For the Female of the Species is More Deadly than the Male*

Female Faculty More Likely to Support Speech Restrictions, Campus Investigations, Deplatforming [More]

They’re also more likely to be red-shirted cows, ignorant of what can happen when those they’re enabling decide it’s time to take off the mask.

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[Via Michael G]

Wrong Thinking is Punishable

“Under Washington state law, residents will now be classified as domestic terrorists if they protest school board meetings, Drag Queen Story Hour Events, and the outcome of elections… These include being anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-critical race theory, questioning election results, and calling the LGBTQ community “groomers.” [More]

I’m not getting Minority Report analogy from this so much as a Keepers vibe…

[Via Michael G]

It’s Not Like the Bill of Rights was Meant for the People…

The ruling is major for many reasons, including that the government tried to claim that charter boat fishing is a “closely-regulated industry” to which the Fourth Amendment does not apply. [More]

Ah, the Scarborough Doctrine of authorized free speech exercisers…

And don’t forget Hogg’s Resurrected Postulate…

[Via Michael G]