These folks - if we are being *conservative* - amplified disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop l and impugned @EmmaJoNYC's journalistic integrity
Apologies are absolutely warranted
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David French wrote a whole column whining about Justice Thomas' brilliant Big Tech opinion
But I want to focus in on this passage right here
Simply put - he's defined "free speech" so broadly that it would eviscerate civil rights law
If social media moderation decisions are free speech - EVEN in the face of laws like section 230 that explicitly say the platform is not the speaker - then any act of exclusion is free speech
Meaning that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is unconstitutional on free speech grounds
When French says that the companies are merely "creat[ing] communities that reflect their own private visions of what a marketplace of ideas should look like"
He should think about how that would apply to Jim Crow restauranteurs and hotel owners
I think this is going to get cross-examined into oblivion
It's a snapshot, you can't see where Chauvin's other knee is, and it looks like he's leaning a little bit to one side (which is enough to take a LOT of the weight off of the other side
Tobin testifies that the combination of one of the officers pushing Floyd's handcuffs into his back, combined with Chauvin's knee on Floyd's *back*, made it so Floyd couldn't breathe out of his left lung
I don't necessarily think this is great testimony for the prosecution: they've spent almost the entire time saying that it was Chauvin's knee on Floyd's *neck* that was excessive force