• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Im not american so i dont know all the freedom of speech laws work but its so fucking convenient that republicans can just decide what is and what isnt freedom of speech.

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      10 months ago

      While this article implies they want to restrict freedom of speech of the businesses, the actual threat is against the town who is distributing the signs. I still think it’s abuse of the state’s oversight powers, but it’s not the 1A violation the article makes it sound like.

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      10 months ago

      Until recently the politicians didn’t really have abuse their power to do this. But since the Republicans have no spine whatsoever, they decided if it’d possible - who’s stopping them.

      This is exactly the thing that should be stopped by the first sane person in the chain of rolling this out - but the Rep did a really good job infiltrating most of it.