• hexinvictus [he/him]
    hexbear
    82
    2 months ago

    Not it doesn't. The first amendment clearly states that you cannot criticize Israel.

    • AcidLeaves [he/him, he/him]
      hexbear
      55
      2 months ago

      Pretty sure the first amendment also protects the right to blame everything on the Chinese

    • Rom [he/him]
      hexbear
      47
      2 months ago

      Full of digital fentanyl I'm sure

      • VILenin [he/him]
        hexbear
        33
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        Love how liberals have just dropped the pretense of any critical thought and just start mixing up all their buzzwords in a frothing, incoherent rage

        China fentanyl spy balloon Beijing syndrome earthquake machine Xi Jinping brainwashing Uyghur death camp Tinyman square 1984

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
          hexbear
          22
          2 months ago

          China fentanyl spy balloon Beijing syndrome earthquake machine Xi Jinping brainwashing Uyghur death camp Tinyman square 1984

          I think that's just the start of that copypasta that's been popular on reddit for a while

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
      hexbear
      15
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      china has spy satellites

      and it is well within their right

      they also have satellites that are used for other military purposes like long range targeting and such

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    70
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    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

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      63
      2 months ago

      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

      • Maoo [none/use name]
        hexbear
        40
        2 months ago

        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.

      • Wolfman86 [none/use name]
        hexbear
        39
        2 months ago

        Very predictable. At this point it appears “free speech” is just a nice term for racism.

      • Tunnelvision [they/them]
        hexbear
        22
        2 months ago

        I don’t think this will go over as nonchalantly as that. This is a genuine constitutional crisis that will probably radicalize a mass of people. Obviously we don’t really care about the constitution here, but most Americans have the idea that the freedom of speech is something you have here. Add onto that their favorite app treat is getting banned and this seems like a pretty big deal.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
      hexbear
      33
      2 months ago

      i love how every time this happens i get to yell at people that the supreme court is illegitimate and a complete political

      there are still fools who think it is some kind of sacred institution that should be respected

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
      hexbear
      31
      2 months ago

      the capitalists and chuds wipe their ass with the holy parchment just like we do

  • NewLeaf [he/him]
    hexbear
    19
    2 months ago

    Tik tock about to find out why we don't have healthcare that our justice system only works in favor of the elites

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    9
    2 months ago

    I’ll honestly be really surprised if even this Supreme Court doesn’t block this. I don’t think they’ll shred that level of credibility for something that’s not their thing. They’re willing to burn their reputation, for sure, but I don’t think they’ll be willing to do it for “that weird tiktok thing those dickheads in Congress did”