Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was ridiculed on Monday after voicing her concerns that the First Amendment could limit the federal government.

I am surprised this made it to SCOTUS. When the government is demanding it, it becomes a 1st amendment issue. Meta is acting as an agent of the government. This should have never happened.

  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
    69·
    8 months ago

    if they ask social media companies to voluntarily do various things to promote the public’s interest in truthful information.

    They threatened the companies if they did not comply. That is what the lawsuit is about.

    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
      82·
      8 months ago

      Well, the 5th Circuit found that to be the case…but the 5th Circuit is where the law goes to be corrupted, so I’m extremely skeptical that actually happened. Like, the FBI merely asking constitutes an implicit threat:

      In the case of the FBI, it found the agency had coerced and significantly encouraged the social media sites to take down content, arguing that because it was a law enforcement agency, any request to take down content came with the implicit threat that it could take legal action.

      That’s nonsense, and yet…here we are…