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Clay Higgins Threatens Investigations Unless Charlie Kirk Critics Are Censored (house.gov)
6 points by _p2zi 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


> Please be advised that your platforms are rightfully expected to expeditiously remove all posts that have celebrated the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Further, the authors of these posts are to be identified and banned from your platform, as well as any new pages they may create.

Without any citations of law to justify it, this is a remarkable claim. It could be that the statements are against the terms of the sites, in which case they have every right to remove/block the content and potentially remove the users (it's their service, after all). If these comments could be construed as threatening there might be some law to have the contents removed, but not to outright force the services to ban the commenters.


Bunch of first amendment goldfish these politicians are, and by goldfish I mean authoritarianism, free speech for me but not for thee


cf. with Elon Musk saying that X was not going to censor any kind of speech.


Who still believes what comes out of his mouth?


Sadly, an embarrassingly high amount of people right here on HN.


He sounds like an over-controlling parent scolding his children. That always works, right? chuckle

How about appealing to the better angels of our nature, like Lincoln said and did, when he was trying to heal the divisions from the Civil War?




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