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• On the post: Appeals Court Says DC Cops Possibly Violated The First Amendment By Arresting Pro-Life Sidewalk Chalkers

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:41am

  Yes, let’s just ignore the… what is it now… 4? criminal indictments of Trump, and just say there is no evidence of any crimes Trump committed. If you had said insufficient evidence, that would be one thing, but to say there is no evidence whatsoever is laughable.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says DC Cops Possibly Violated The First Amendment By Arresting Pro-Life Sidewalk Chalkers

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:36am

  Plenty of religious people don’t object to minorities at all.

• On the post: Sixth Circuit Denies Immunity To Officers Who Waited 19 Months To Process A $30k Forfeiture

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:33am

  Also the Soviet Union.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suggests He’s Going To Sue George Soros… For His Free Speech Advocating For Certain Laws

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:31am

  “99% of quotes on the internet were never said by the people they are attributed to.” — Abraham Lincoln

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suggests He’s Going To Sue George Soros… For His Free Speech Advocating For Certain Laws

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:29am

  You do realize that that doesn’t help his case at all, right? George Soros can express his opinion on ex-Twitter all he wants, and there simply isn’t any no frivolous argument Elon could make in court to stop him or punish him for it. That doesn’t mean that Elon should change what he’s doing regarding moderation; that’s an entirely different issue. It just means that Elon can’t file a lawsuit against George over this speech that would get anywhere in court. And no, it’s not libel to express your opinions. There is no objective definition for “anti-Semitic hate speech”, so any claim that something falls under that term is necessarily a statement of opinion, and such statements simply cannot be defamatory. If I called you a racist, even if I didn’t actually believe that you were a racist, that wouldn’t be defamatory because that’s an opinion and cannot be proven objectively true or false.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suggests He’s Going To Sue George Soros… For His Free Speech Advocating For Certain Laws

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:21am

  Except it wouldn’t be. Kicking you out for disrupting their service is their free expression, and since it’s their private property, their expression trumps yours.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suggests He’s Going To Sue George Soros… For His Free Speech Advocating For Certain Laws

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:19am

  We can still read your comments quite easily, so under no sensible definition of the term are you being censored at all.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suggests He’s Going To Sue George Soros… For His Free Speech Advocating For Certain Laws

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:17am

  That’s a minority opinion even among American conservatives, who are all quite rightwing. So no, that isn’t something most non-degenerates hold unless you’re begging the question. Really, you’re basically the only one I’ve heard express that opinion at all.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suggests He’s Going To Sue George Soros… For His Free Speech Advocating For Certain Laws

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 02:14am

  The AC wasn’t asked any questions. Also, freedom of expression only restricts state action, so yes, we’re all for it. That’s why we say that platforms shouldn’t be forced by law to host any and all speech, even if it finds that speech objectionable. The platform’s speech is its own expression.

• On the post: Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2023 @ 06:27am

  I see you’re in favor of the heckler’s veto… or would that be the harassers’ veto in this case? And are you familiar with stalkers?

• On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 06:06pm

  You only want to take QI from the cops, not from judges, magistrates, or politicians. So only the cops pay the price.

  Those people don’t get QI to begin with. Currently, they get absolute immunity. These are not the same thing at all.

• On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 08:07pm

  Didn’t the Democrats claim that the 2016 election was stolen?

  Nope. That is a strawman that the Republican Party has been pushing since the 2016 election, but it simply isn’t true.

  Didn’t they claim that Trump colluded with the Russians?

  Some, yes, with evidence. Others simply said it ought to be looked into.

  Didn’t they continue that claim for more than 2 and a half years.

  It’s been more than 3 and a half years since Biden was elected.

  How many people died in our 1st Civil War? 620,000 How many people died on December 7, 1941? 2,403 How many people died on 9/11 ? 2,996 How many people died on January 6 ? 1

  Which is entirely irrelevant. This isn’t about how many people have died so far. Also, the first number is a bad comparison, anyways. The Civil War lasted years. Every other event mentioned only lasted a single day.

  For this you want a second Civil war and the elimination of the Republican Party?

  I’ll take “Things No One has Ever Said” for $400, please.

• On the post: My Distaste For Your Solution Does Not Mean Disregard For The Problem

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2023 @ 11:27pm

  Right. When your solution is literally worse than nothing, you must stop what you’re doing.

  Ironically, it used to be conservatives keeping liberals from going too far, or maybe vice versa for some things.

• On the post: Witcher Producer: Show’s Shit Viewership Is Because Of Dumb Americans And Social Media

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 07:51pm

  I still find it hilarious that some people spend as much—if not more—time playing this random minigame than on the game itself.

• On the post: Judge Blocks Unconstitutional Book Ban Law Passed By Arkansas’ Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 10:46am

  People have acquired the notion that it’s OK to demand the silencing of speech, and don’t see the difference between private actors doing it and the government doing it.

  If so, they’re wrong. Not that this is even in evidence, anyways, but that some people can’t understand the distinction doesn’t mean the distinction isn’t there and important.

  [F]or people not versed in civics, I don’t know that Google, Facebook, and the government are all that distinguishable.

  I don’t really care what people not versed in civics think. This isn’t a question of perception but reality.

• On the post: Judge Blocks Unconstitutional Book Ban Law Passed By Arkansas’ Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 10:43am

  No one here wants young children to have access to obscene materials. The thing is that it’s not the job of the library to enforce that. That’s for the parent(s) to decide for their own children, not for the government or random people to decide for all children. Moreover, the law in question lumps everyone under 18 into the same category, and what would be too obscene for a 6-year-old to read may not be even remotely concerning for a 17-year-old to read. The law uses far too coarse a filter here. Heck, “obscene” isn’t even the standard here. It’s “harmful to minors”. “Obscene” is already rather subjective, but “harmful to minors” is even worse!

• On the post: Judge Blocks Unconstitutional Book Ban Law Passed By Arkansas’ Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 10:33am

  Because “Democratic Degeneracy & anti-Americanism” isn’t a thing that actually exists in reality. What’s the point in objecting to a fantasy? That said, Stephen has criticized Democrats in the past. The situation just doesn’t come up as often because the GOP tends to be even worse on this issue.

• On the post: Senators Warren & Graham Want To Create New Online Speech Police Commission

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 10:24am

  Criticizing a Democrat for being crap on this one issue is evidence that they’re a Democrat pretending not to be one? How does that make any sense to you?

• On the post: Legal Subreddit Bans All Ex-Twitter Links Due To Safety Risk

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 10:17am

  And you consider these to be places we should strive to be more like? More importantly, you know who’s not on that list? The U.S., where Twitter is based. Nor are Canada, Mexico, the UK, Ireland, any European countries (excluding Belarus and Russia), the E.U., Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Iceland, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Israel, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, South Africa, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. That’s most of the anglosphere, the majority of the world population, the locations most international businesses are domiciled, and pretty much all the truly democratic nations (along with several that very much are not). That there are a few countries that do not ban possession of child porn (most of which are small and lack international influence, with the remainders being corrupt, autocratic nations) is an incredibly weak point. It neither indicates that the law should change in the US nor that the law applicable here might be that of a country that doesn’t ban child porn. As for the bit that it is impossible to get rid of all CSAM, while not incorrect, this missed the point. Twitter has been failing at meeting the industry standards for detecting and removing CSAM. Most other major sites that accept user-submissions do a lot better job. Twitter is failing at the basics. That is on Twitter alone. Finally, there is zero evidence that r/law has a liberal bias, so your claims about their motives lack any factual basis or evidentiary foundation, instead relying on pure speculation based on your own preconceived notions.

• On the post: Legal Subreddit Bans All Ex-Twitter Links Due To Safety Risk

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 09:56am

  Matthew really picks weird hills to die on.

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