Comments on: Bill to stop “de platforming” declared unconstitutional

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 10:07:09 +0000

This may be adverse to the interests of registrants in the short term but it was right legally. The same law that protects Facebook from having to deal with people it doesn’t want protects NARSOL connections, for example, from having to deal with people it doesn’t want. And why would we assume that if the judiciary found that political speech trumps Facebook’s property rights, that they would suddenly realize that registrants deserve the same consideration? It’s a stretch to suppose they would suddenly become consistent…

Besides, plenty of registrants just say phooey and use the platforms anyway.

By: Brevard Coordinator

Brevard Coordinator — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 02:10:42 +0000

This should be appealed. These companies are no longer private entities. Mark Zuckerberg and the other Big Tech magnates admitted they received tax-payer dollars and worked hand-in-hand with government. Just like FPL is a utility, so is Big Tech.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 31 May 2022 22:24:43 +0000

Twitter already permits registrants and their advocacy organizations. And they ban use of their platform for child sexual exploitation. Twitter understands the difference. You really wanted a court ruling to upend that? Be careful what you wish for, and be thankful for having avoided the unintended consequences that would have resulted, had the 11th Circuit gone the other way.

By: JoeM

JoeM — Tue, 31 May 2022 22:16:46 +0000

Looks like the Supreme Court issued an injunction regarding the similar Texas law.

By: GL

GL — Tue, 31 May 2022 20:53:49 +0000

This analysis fails to recognize that it is the goverment who is facilitating the ability of the private companies to obtain what would be otherwise private information, namely, the label. The government collects the identifiers under theat of felony and they are not collecting identifiers from any other group.
The people that case was about were people who incited violence and/or performed other misdeeds on the platform. The government’s scheme creates roadblocks to free speech.
The platforms could say the don’t want murderers on their site. They do not have a means to reveal any other types of people except for registrants.
It is a classic bill of attainder.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 31 May 2022 20:20:54 +0000

Surely the DeSantis administration will appeal this to the Supreme Court, no?

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Tue, 31 May 2022 20:17:30 +0000

In reply to Tired.

TO: Tired

The difference is, people who practice witchcraft now days do not get dunked anymore, they are left alone. So, they have it better than we do.
What we have in common, they were labeled as witches with little to no proof. And we get labeled as sex offenders, regardless if we have not re-offended for decades. So we have come a long way in progressing away from killing people being accused of witch craft. But keep adding new restrictions every year on anyone who has to register?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:14:03 +0000

What about “equal time” laws and regulations during campaign seasons?

While I agree that Facebook, Twitter, et al are private organizations and can ban whoever they want, I think it should be their burden to scrub the registry daily and cross-reference it with their records to do so. No state has any business enforcing a private organization’s terms of service.

Besides, of the handful of sex crimes that might – MIGHT – have occurred after initial contact Facebook over the past 30 years, how many were by registrants? IF that number is less than 1000 (and I’m certain it is), there are an awful lot of zeros between the decimal point and the first digit in terms of percentage of Facebook accounts.

By: Tired

Tired — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:10:19 +0000

Well We’ll, great news, if only, only if, it could have been,
Let’s just face reality, we are no better than the witches during the Salem witch hunts.

We are screwed, permanently.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Tue, 31 May 2022 18:52:07 +0000

For me, the biggest one would have been Next door. BUT, Why ban our families (At the same address), they didn’t do anything. I guess because it is not based on Race, religion, or gender, they can do whatever the Hell they want huh?