- The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.
- The federal government strong-armed Apple and Facebook to remove ICE activity monitoring from company platforms.
- It’s unconstitutional for the government to coerce private companies into censorship.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity
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Devial@discuss.online 12 hours ago
Sure ironic that conservatives are now openly doing the very things they kept whining and complaining about Biden doing
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yet entirely expected. “Every accusation is a confession” has been a common trope for the Republican party for decades at this point for a reason.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
And when those lawsuits shook out it turned out that the Biden administration didn’t actually do anything wrong. It just warned people about an attempt to influence the election but never said that had to remove content.
Ulrich@feddit.org 8 hours ago
The current administration didn’t tell anyone they had to remove anything either, AFAIK. But it can be considered curtailing freedom of speech to ask.