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Upfront: I'm not a fan of this at all. That said, >This is blatantly unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Uh. Maybe inside US borders, re: speech by US
by Octoth0rpe 5y ago
Upfront: I'm not a fan of this at all. That said,
>This is blatantly unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
Uh. Maybe inside US borders, re: speech by US nationals. I don't see how this could be unconstitutional if we're talking about 'speech' in say the form of blog, news, video posts by non-US nationals, hosted outside of the US.
> Supreme Court has already ruled in the past that it is unconstitutional for the government to punt to the private sector infringements on the constitution that it is prevented from doing itself.
That may be, but that also seems to be remarkably underenforced in any case.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoBlocking it? Unconstitutional (I hope) for US nationals. Countering it? If an employee of a government contractor shows up here, says "Actually AnimalMuppet is a Russian disinformation operator, don't believe anything he says", is that a violation of my constitutional rights? IANAL, but I would say no, not if my original post isn't removed. (It might still be libel, though.) Saying that someone else is wrong is not censorship.
- rubyist5eva 5y ago> If an employee of a government contractor shows up here, says "Actually AnimalMuppet is a Russian disinformation operator, don't believe anything he says", is that a violation of my constitutional rights? If that contractor then says to HN - you must ban them, or you must put a user flair saying they are a spy. Then yes, it is a violation of the first amendment.