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People shouldn't be allowed to speak their piece when that piece can be bright-line traced to people dying.

But fine, let's allow people to speak their piece because bright lines are hard to draw, starting with Twitter, who should be completely free to follow or not follow what the US government says, which is literally what happened here.

This will be overturned on appeal, because the bar for this kind of order is way higher than where the Biden admin was, and for the most part we still care about being consistent when applying the rule of law.



> People shouldn't be allowed to speak their piece when that piece can be bright-line traced to people dying.

Authoritarian governments love it! All for public safety, that’s the spirit!

“You can’t say that, someone might hate it enough to attack me! Doesn’t matter how true it is!” -any dictator


…someone might believe it enough to kill themselves or others.

Absolutism helps no one, and you already rely in the government to protect you in a number of “authoritarian” ways, so it’s not like you have a moral opposition to the idea.




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