The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. — Anthony Kennedy Modern liberals are supposed to be about liberty — protecting the rights of the people. Our newest justice on the SCOTUS bench must not have gotten the memo on that. She appears wanting as an arch defender of the First Amendment. In her remarks Justice Jackson telegraphed to the court and its audience (the rest of us) her insufficient grasp of the facts. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a Missouri case regarding (there’s no other way to say this) social media censorship . At issue is whether the federal government coerced social media companies into suppressing certain content and whether that would constitute an affront to free speech protections. (READ MORE from F. Andrew Wolf Jr.: Is ‘Man the […]
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