It’s gonna be funny when this gets to the Supreme Court
Either they undermine their own sacred texts and they say the government gets to define what is or isn’t free speech, or they go against the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the political class of this country
I think they’ll go for the first option, and this will open Pandora’s box on all sorts of government censorship which will clog up the Supreme Court’s docket. Then they’ll go through, case by case, and determine what free speech protections apply to every single grievance brought before them.
Banning queer literature will be allowed by the first amendment, banning racist posters on Facebook will be illegal, etc
The habit of this court is to rule in favor of whatever they want while trying to claim it’s a limited decision (and even saying to not use the decision as precedent!).
I think that’s the most likely outcome. They’ll say it’s a special case because of some technicality and go forward with it.
Or hell they might just do the usual, “national security trumps all” piece of misdirection I dunno.
I wonder what would happen if balloon boy happened now. Would it have been a dumb made up story about a kid stuck in a balloon, or would it be chuds swearing there was a tiny Chinese man in it taking pictures of them.
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