Opinion: The ongoing assault on internet freedom
The essence of America is freedom. One of the most crucial freedoms is free speech. Democracy can’t function without it. You especially need the right to criticize your government, including making jokes about it. And what a target-rich environment that is.
It’s obviously a violation of the First Amendment protection against laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” And anyway, would it mandate reporting discussion of the well-known conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln? No wonder, according to the Washington Free Beacon, the state is being sued by a coalition including the Babylon Bee, a satiric site, podcaster Tim Pool and Minds, a free-speech site. “While theirs is the first legal complaint, they are far from the first parties to voice qualms about the law’s potential effects on free speech. Internet advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation fought AB 587 as it wound its way through the legislature, saying it violated the First Amendment.
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