GQP response to FB ban of MF45: Take it to the SCOTUS!

[sinkingfeeling]

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Yep. First Amendment. Very Unfair.

[gratuitous]

2. Because that's totally the way the court system works

Charlie Kirk is ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray, is he?

[Blue Owl]

3. They're still on that hairbrained idea?

[Moostache]

4. Charlie, is it?

Well, Chuckie, here's the thing - the First Amendment protection of free speech applies ONLY to the government and its ability to pass laws that limit speech, establish a state religion, etc., etc. Individual citizens can do and say pretty much whatever they damn well want, though they are NOT protected from the consequences of those actions and decisions. They may be as vile and hateful as the communities they reside in will abide, but they generally find that they run afoul of things like access providers who will NOT abide their bile.

The thing that infected the Oval Office is no different. His right to say whatever dumb shit he wants is NOT violated here, but his access to other people's infrastructure and systems to make it easy for him IS NOT A RIGHT.

I thought the GQP was for free-dumb and business-directed polices - guess that is another 'right' reserved for old white men, huh?

[louis-t]

5. No, Charlie, you dumbass. Encouraging violent overthrow of the government

is what has "gone too far." You dumbass. You.

[Botany]

6. Good God in Butter is he dumb

From wiki: He was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that hydroxychloroquine has proved to be "100% effective in treating the virus"; and that Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, threatened doctors who tried to use the medication.[2] This falsehood was retweeted by Rudolph Giuliani whose account was then suspended by Twitter.

[jpak]

7. But but but...

Cancel Culture?

[PSPS]

8. What is it with these people?

They keep thinking they can run to the supreme court and have it impose their will in non-judicial matters on others. Facebook's "Oversight Board" isn't a judicial body. Geesh. Let trump do his little blog. There's no shortage of such blogs littering the internet.

[Mister Ed]

9. One simple thing these dumb shits don't understand about the First Amendment...

...is that it does not obligate any person or business to publish what someone has to say.

If I write a letter to the editors of the local paper, they might or might not print it. They won't be violating my First Amendment rights if they choose not to print it.

If I call in to Sean Hannity's radio show tomorrow, his call screener and his producer probably won't like what I have to say, and will probably choose not to air it. That's fine. The First Amendment does not obligate them to broadcast my spiel.

All of this would be especially true if I were urging others to commit a crime. In that case, the media has an obligation not to help me get that message out.

Pretty simple, right? But good luck explaining it to the ignorant, arrogant, and entitled people that make up the modern GOP.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Facebook is not a state actor

[Stallion]

11. I Don't Think the SCOTUS Has Jurisdiction to Take Appeal from Facebook Advisory Panel

[PortTack]

12. Bring it!! The rwnj crew needs smacked down..preferably daily

[SWBTATTReg]

13. Just continuing to prove what morons they all are, still.

Long live the FB ban on thugs and worse...

[Midnight Writer]

14. He's not stupid. He is gaslighting. His audience will listen to this and respond with "Hell yes!"