When the bedrock, lead-off of your case is that college students not wanting to date Trump supporters reveals a predilection for infringing on people's rights, you've lost the argument in a way that veers way too close to incel-ville.

Yikes.

nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/… Image
He literally CANNOT stop talking about who college kids want to date. Image
Oh good, I was beginning to get worried that he was ignoring the mating preferences of us non-students. Phew.

This. is. so. weird. Image
*citation needed Image
"De facto common carriers?" I guess we can just call people legal concepts and use "de facto" and like...whatever, it's cool.

Two can play this game: The author of this lengthy whine about how people don't like his views is a de facto Superfund site. Image
"We should protect free speech by protecting against political discrimination, EXCEPT for beliefs not worthy of respect in a democratic society, as defined by the government" is some galaxy-brain shit. Image
At it's core, this is just a de-religionized version of Sohrab: In order to win the war against society rejecting our ideas, we must curtail the freedoms of those of who disagree with us and have the ability to impact our lives in some way. Image
People will indeed say it is authoritarian, Eric. Because it is. And saying "nu uh, it's LIBERAL" isn't going to magically change that. Image

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7 Jul
This is even more stupid than I expected
I briefly explained why the whole "Section 230 is unconstitutional" argument fails here: et seq.
"Section 230 is unconstitutional and we hate it, but threatening to repeal it constitutes government coercion sufficient to make Facebook a state actor"

Wow. Just wow.
Read 8 tweets
30 Jun
Motion for preliminary injunction GRANTED. Thoughts to follow, but this does not portend well for Florida.
The court analyzes preemption under 230(c)(2)(A), but doesn't touch (c)(1). Normally this would bother me, because that's not how #Section230 works. But if you read it, Hinkle doesn't really decide between the 230 interpretations; this reads more like an "even if FL is right"
Hinkle was obviously not swayed by Florida's attempt to brush off platforms' curation as meaningless and expressionless. He seems to understand that those functions are vital for their products to be usable.
Read 18 tweets
28 Jun
1/ We are locked and loaded. Welcome to the livetweet of the preliminary injunction hearing in NetChoice v. Moody, where the court will hear arguments about whether Florida should be enjoined from enforcing its unconstitutional social media law #SB7072.
2/ We (@techfreedom) filed an amicus brief urging the court to do just that, and expect the arguments we anticipated in our brief to play a large role in today's hearings: techfreedom.org/wp-content/upl…

The hearing will start in just a few minutes, so hold on to your hats, folks.
3/ Judge Hinkle is here, and plaintiffs are up.
Read 163 tweets
25 Jun
Is @HEIHotels' CEO stoned? The shortage isn't because of wage competition. It's because the jobs don't pay enough *overall*. Why would tips be different? If you paid more & competitors matched, there'd be plenty of workers. Pay your fucking employees. JFC. businessinsider.com/labor-shortage… Image
It's not *my* job to make sure *you* don't suffer labor shortages because you don't pay employees enough, @HEIHotels.
In other news, I am suffering a labor shortage because I can't find someone to be my administrative assistant for $5,000 a year. Maybe Ted Darnall and @HEIHotels should commit to tipping someone $50k every year so this unjust lack of secretarial assistance can be remedied.
Read 4 tweets
25 Jun
1/ #SCOTX just issued a Section 230 decision that uses some breathtakingly tortured analysis to achieve a particular outcome.

txcourts.gov/media/1452449/…

The plaintiffs had brought various tort claims against Facebook alleging that it facilitated sex trafficking.
2/ In addition to the negligence/products liability claims, Plaintiffs also brought claims under Texas's trafficking laws, opting not to proceed under federal sex trafficking law, which is not immunized under Section 230.
3/ SCOTX spent some pages bloviating about whether Justice Thomas's interpretation of Section 230 is right, ultimately concluding that they weren't going to follow it and instead agreed that the negligence/products liability claims should be dismissed pursuant to 230. All right.
Read 13 tweets
23 Jun
I'm sorry, why is this a thing? The roads were clearly fine and it's not like the tornado was lingering about. Should companies not send delivery employees to a place that USPS was probably sending letter carriers just because there was damage? Total nonsense.
"You won't *believe* what situations Jeff Bezos is putting his employees in. Just the other day, a whole bunch of birds pooped on that street!"
"A house on that street burned down. Obviously Amazon should cancel all deliveries for the next week"
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