Appeals Court Rules White House Overstepped 1st Amendment on Social Media
www.nytimes.com
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
  • Beetschnapps@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Sorry I misphrased that. I do not believe the real overreach came from the Biden admin pushing to remove demonstrably false information that damages public health. The trump admin however:

    “The attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, both Republicans, argued in a lawsuit filed last year that government agencies and officials — including some working in the administration of President Donald J. Trump — had abused their authority by coercing companies like Facebook, Twitter (now called X) and YouTube to silence critics.”

    **That is different. **

    Compare bush’s “free speech zones” or trump whining for twitter to delete any post calling him names vs removing harmful lies about vaccines, “child sexual abuse, human trafficking and other criminal activity…”

    Hmm

    • jerkbank@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I figured since you were being critical of Trump, we were on the same page. The bot skipping that first paragraph paints this whole story in a different light.