Supreme court decision for today

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Government officials can ask to have social media posts taken down.


6-3 ruling.  Guess who two of the three were?

Term ends at the end of July.  Any bets on when they're going to rule on Trump?  Thomas and Alito would push it off until next year if they could...

[Dave's Not Here Man]

Probably not when there are so many landmark decisions to be made like that one. Question: Was it a question of if they could ask to remove posts or order them removed? It makes a huge difference in how I'd feel about it. But yeah, the First Amendment doesn't seem to sit well with half of us at any given time and in my opinion needs a rewrite into no less than 3 Amendments. In any case it doesn't register in the conservative mindset that the Second Amendment isn't the only one that matters albeit convenient to cite the First when rights run in to responsibilities.

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I believe it was order, but have to read the decision to be sure.

I think it was among the order of removing information spread by bots, but again not sure at all.

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Okay, so I read a little more about it. The case was brought up by a group of states saying that the Biden administration was pressuring and coercing social media platforms to remove conservative posts.

What was happening was that the administration was aggressively looking for posts from conspiracy theorists spreading disinformation about COVID and election fraud and telling social media platforms that they needed to take them down because they were spreading disinformation. There was no coercing, and no one was forced to remove a post. But the platforms were being informed constantly about misleading posts.

And like the abortion pill case, the court didn't rule on the merits, just said that the plaintiffs had no standing to bring the case.

This hasn't happened with just this court, but I will say that I have grown weary of SCOTUS agreeing to take a case, then basically dismissing it on the standing that the plaintiffs had no standing to bring the case in the first place. One would think that could be determined before they agreed to even hear the case.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

So the larger question here is; Are bots people?

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I bet Thomas and Alito would say yes.

They just punted on whether Idaho has to allow access to abortions in ERs, and approved weakening the SEC and EPA.

Guess who voted in favor of the EPA and SEC and against allowing abortion access? I'll give you not one, but two guesses!