I think they'll go for the first option, and this will open Pandora's box on all sorts of government censorship which will clog up the Supreme Court's docket. Then they'll go through, case by case, and determine what free speech protections apply to every single grievance brought before them.

Banning queer literature will be allowed by the first amendment, banning racist posters on Facebook will be illegal, etc

[–] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Very predictable. At this point it appears “free speech” is just a nice term for racism.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

The habit of this court is to rule in favor of whatever they want while trying to claim it's a limited decision (and even saying to not use the decision as precedent!).

I think that's the most likely outcome. They'll say it's a special case because of some technicality and go forward with it.

Or hell they might just do the usual, "national security trumps all" piece of misdirection I dunno.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think this will go over as nonchalantly as that. This is a genuine constitutional crisis that will probably radicalize a mass of people. Obviously we don’t really care about the constitution here, but most Americans have the idea that the freedom of speech is something you have here. Add onto that their favorite app treat is getting banned and this seems like a pretty big deal.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure...the anti-China propaganda brainworms have a solid grip on so many people.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Right, which is why it’s important to frame this as an attack on free speech, which it is.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My expectation as well