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Comment by llamaimperative

3 months ago

Signal of belief in an excessively strong state?

Clarence Thomas is not actually conservative in the small government sense.

Neil Gorsuch is though and he signed on too. He even said that while he thought the government had to prove a higher standard than the opinion required, it didn’t matter to the decision because the government in his mind had met that even higher standard anyway.

signal in belief that freedom of speech has limits, and it doesn't extend to a foreign adversary hoping to decimate the USA has been my conclusion from the 9-0 decision of SCOTUS

  • Oh brilliant. So all we need to curtail someone's speech is assert they are "a foreign adversary hoping to decimate the USA?"

    That clarifies things!

    What about the speech of "the enemy from within" who is "more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these other countries"?

    (And to be clear: I think TikTok is awful and should be banned, but I want much, much clearer arguments than this as to why it is able to be banned under our Constitution)