{"id":33388,"date":"2021-07-15T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=33388"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:42:09","slug":"the-united-states-is-dictating-to-facebook-what-we-can-say-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2021\/07\/15\/the-united-states-is-dictating-to-facebook-what-we-can-say-to-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States is Dictating to Facebook What We Can Say to Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1415725320381079569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is providing a handy new service for us.<\/a> We no longer need to worry about what to say and think! It is well-established, however, that the First Amendment prohibits the government from forcing private companies to censor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1415725320381079569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33389 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-300x253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-1024x865.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-768x649.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB.png 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would like to think that the ACLU will file suit tomorrow to crush this obvious violation of the First Amendment, but I have no confidence that that will happen. And beware: Censorship is a potent narcotic that is difficult for governments to quit. Republicans are undoubtedly licking their chops now, waiting for their chance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1415785914069102597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33390 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-300x178.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi.png 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1415725320381079569\">is providing a handy new service for us.<\/a> We no longer need to worry about what to say and think! It is well-established, however, that the First Amendment prohibits the government from forcing private companies to censor.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1415725320381079569\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33389 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-300x253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-1024x865.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB-768x649.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-FB.png 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI would like to think that the ACLU will file suit tomorrow to crush this obvious violation of the First Amendment, but I have no confidence that that will happen. And beware: Censorship is a potent narcotic that is difficult for governments to quit. Republicans are undoubtedly licking their chops now, waiting for their chance.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1415785914069102597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33390 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-300x178.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Matt-Taibbi.png 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,31,5721,5851,6023,6379,6201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-communication","category-orwellian-communication","category-propaganda-communication","category-secrecy-communication","category-silence-communication","category-social-media-communication","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33392,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388\/revisions\/33392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}