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Friendly reminder that any member of Congress can write and introduce whatever bill they want to. My reading of the prospects for actual passage of this bill a
by snowwrestler 6y ago
Friendly reminder that any member of Congress can write and introduce whatever bill they want to.
My reading of the prospects for actual passage of this bill are approximately a butterfly fart in a tornado.
This is most likely what is sometimes called a "message bill": legislation that is not actually expected to pass but is introduced anyway in an attempt to score political points.
- bjourne 6y agoAlso a message from these politicians to their boss Trump that they are loyal bootlickers.
- Simulacra 6y agoThe polls reflecting Trump's low poll numbers are the same ones that said he lost on the night he won the election.
- avmich 6y agoThat case is rather unique and doesn't invalidate the idea of polling per ce.
- nutjob2 6y agoYour statement is an error in interpreting polls. Polls cannot tell you who will win the election, only the probability of each result. Trump has about a 30% chance of winning according to the polls. The polls themselves were no less accurate as they have been historically, on average. They were not wrong, but have always had the limitation of only representing probabilities.
- Simulacra 6y agoThey were not wrong? I think FiveThirtyEight would disagree with you. Their polling showed Hillary would win. They were mostly confident in that poll, and yet only one (Los Angeles Times) was correct. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gave-trump-a-better-chance-than-almost-anyone-else/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...
- tmaly 6y agoI am wondering if the Communications Decency Act is a violation of the 1st amendment to begin with.
- Simulacra 6y agoI would agree with that. The CDA as a whole has been used to put far too many people in prison, and stifle free speech.
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- aaaaaaaaaaa10 6y agoWhile the First Amendment generally does not apply to private companies, the Supreme Court has held it “does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict . . . the free flow of information and ideas.” https://www.city-journal.org/html/platform-or-publisher-15888.html https://www.city-journal.org/html/platform-or-publisher-1588...