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2 courts have ruled against this already: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/laws-targeting-israel-boycotts-fail-again-court https://www.ac

• AnimalMuppet 8y ago
  Two courts have already ruled against states trying to do this. This article is about the Federal government trying to do the same thing. Obviously, that doesn't make it any better. What it does make it is more stupid. Yes, the states ought to know better, but the US Congress really ought to know better. Do members of Congress not know what the First Amendment says? Do they not see how it applies to this proposal? Or do they simply not care? All those options are bad; I'm not sure which one is worse.
• wallace_f 8y ago
  Why would so many people downvote this comment? Akso HN just dropped the hammer and removed this submission from the front page (cant be found on 2nd, 3rd, 4th pages either)
  • yodon 8y ago
    The "hammer" is probably algorithmic, not a human conspiracy. The few comments already on this submisson strongly suggest there is large amounts of upvoting and downvoting going on without a similar amount of good commenting. HN's algorithms are designed to promote good conversation, not pile on the voting wars around contentious topics. It happens that politically charged topics frequently drive large amounts of knee-jerk angry voting responses not associated with equally rich conversations, so they tend to get algorithmically pushed down the ranking.