prohibits any federal department, agency, officer, or employee from engaging in actions that restrict or limit the lawful free expression of Americans.
Semantic douche question: does that include telling someone to shut up?
With these types of broad sweeping changes, its never a douche question to wonder how it will or could be exploited or abused because we know someone will absolutely try.
In this case, I think the words "restrict or limit" are a decently high enough bar to require a deliberate heavy action.
I doubt it. Being told to shut up neither restricts nor limits your ability to keep responding. Even spamming you back with shut up messages wouldn't do that.
Sure. But who were they asking and what were they asking for? Biden's aides did not tell Facebook users to shut up, nor did they ask Facebook to tell their users to shut up. That would have been useless.
What they were asking was specifically for the removal and/or shadowbanning of posts and people. That would be what's targeted by this EO.
Your speech rights and your ability to exercise them are not at risk if someone just tells you to shut up.
Nice EO, but government will just have to do it more secretively.
And, besides, the marching orders have been handed out. They don't need to hand out censorship orders because fuckers like Zuckerberg and Pichai already know the score and can operate independently of leadership.
Semantic douche question: does that include telling someone to shut up?
With these types of broad sweeping changes, its never a douche question to wonder how it will or could be exploited or abused because we know someone will absolutely try.
In this case, I think the words "restrict or limit" are a decently high enough bar to require a deliberate heavy action.
I doubt it. Being told to shut up neither restricts nor limits your ability to keep responding. Even spamming you back with shut up messages wouldn't do that.
One of the tactics they used to censor twitter and facebook was to simply ask.
And now, if it's a government agent asking the company to shut up a person, they can be reported and possibly face jail time.
Sure. But who were they asking and what were they asking for? Biden's aides did not tell Facebook users to shut up, nor did they ask Facebook to tell their users to shut up. That would have been useless.
What they were asking was specifically for the removal and/or shadowbanning of posts and people. That would be what's targeted by this EO.
Your speech rights and your ability to exercise them are not at risk if someone just tells you to shut up.
Should also apply to any institution that receives federal or state government funding.
Fuck woke academia.
Nice EO, but government will just have to do it more secretively.
And, besides, the marching orders have been handed out. They don't need to hand out censorship orders because fuckers like Zuckerberg and Pichai already know the score and can operate independently of leadership.
Hey, just like a terror cell!
Now get congress to codify it into law
This clip again.