Facebook has set up its own court to interpret its own rules for its own censorship decisions and expects us to call that process "legitimate"
Nah
You should have the same right to speak on Facebook that you do in a public park
We can save Facebook a bunch of money and time with a simple solution
We pass legislation mandating that Facebook (and similar large social media platforms) be treated like public facilities for First Amendment purposes
And make them abide by American free speech law
This is so creepy
There's a substantial minority of the @OversightBoard that thinks Trump should have to "recognize [his] wrongdoing" and "commit to observing the rules in the future" to be reinstated
Trump is the former PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES you arrogant clowns
Orwellian
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He just predicted that any conviction in the Chauvin trial will ultimately be reversed by the Supreme Court, based on the behavior of public officials and the failure to sequester the jury from the outset
Dershowitz says what should have happened
1) Should have been postponed after the civil settlement with the city
2) Should have been moved out of Minneapolis
3) Jury should have been sequestered from outset
4) Alternatively, the judge's instruction should have been stronger
Dershowitz suggests that there was not just a thumb, but an "elbow on the scale of justice"
Everyone aggrieved by the notion that we have Anglo-Saxon traditions worth preserving should yell at the Supreme Court for continuing to cure Blackstone
Where do you guys think the common law come from
Hi folks, a brief introduction to history: not all values and institutions are universal, some come from particular cultural traditions
Then again it makes sense that the same historically illiterate neocons like @RepKinzinger who think we can just install democracy in Afghanistan are the ones appalled by the suggestion that our traditions are rooted in any particular culture