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For Context: They plan legislation to censor content creators critical of the regime or Israel, some of those content creators have larger audiences than legacy media (with younger people). Its a bi-partisan issue [1], so likely something is gonna happen and its not looking good.
[1] For instance Ritchie Torres (democrat) called for the ban of hasan due to his pro-Palestine politics: https://ritchietorres.house.gov/congressman-ritchie-torres-writes-to-executives-at-twitch-and-amazon-hasan-piker-is-dangerous https://ritchietorres.house.gov/congressman-ritchie-torres-w...
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoI know these folks swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, but I wonder now if they have even read it. Perhaps DHS should pull the agents back that they sent over to ICE so that they can go back to working on domestic terrorism again. Sound like a major fuck up on the administration's part.
- bigyabai 1y agoThe precedent for respecting your first-amendment rights WRT Israel is not good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws It would seem we're too late to outweigh the impact of AIPAC...
- lyu07282 1y agoEspecially now that they target left creators supposedly because of the dangers of left-wing extremism, when in reality the vast majority of political violence comes from the right. Like in a study by the Doj that the regime just removed today from their website: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-depa...