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Thus far, per SCOTUS (Barrett, joined by Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Jackson), no. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/supreme-court-rules-in-jawbon
by ceejayoz 11mo ago
Thus far, per SCOTUS (Barrett, joined by Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Jackson), no.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/supreme-court-rules-in-jawboning-case https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/supreme-court-rules-in-...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/justices-side-with-biden-over-governments-influence-on-social-media-content-moderation/ https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/justices-side-with-biden-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murthy_v._Missouri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murthy_v._Missouri
(Nor was it illegal when the Trump administration did the same thing. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru...)
> When the White House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.
> The Trump administration and its allied Republicans in Congress routinely asked Twitter to take down posts they objected to — the exact behavior that they’re claiming makes President Biden, the Democrats, and Twitter complicit in an anti-free speech conspiracy to muzzle conservatives online.
Asking is legal. Punishing non-compliance is not.
- mikeyouse 11mo agoAnd the Trump administration has leapfrogged all of the 'asking' on 1st amendment issues -- they're actively suing news stations, entering shake-down agreements with colleges about what they're allowed to teach, deporting green card holders for their political opinions, cancelling already-awarded research grants based purely on the topic being studied ... anyone pretending like this is remotely comparable to anything that happened under Biden isn't a serious person.