The Rs have finally found a business they want to sue

Republicans, longtime champions of tort reform (which generally decodes as “no suing for damages”) are going all in for new law to permit suing media companies for censoring "conservative views” (which, in this case, decodes as “malarkey”).

 

GOP Pushes Bills to Allow Social Media ‘Censorship' Lawsuits

Len Niehoff, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, described the idea as a “constitutional non-starter.”

 

Now, we’re all for free speech, which we take to mean everyone has the right to say whatever they damn well please and also to not say it if they choose. But the constitutional, aka 1st Amendment concept of free speech is simply that the government cannot censor speech (see above re: “not say”). Also, neither the government nor some corporation nor that guy down the block can force you to listen to what’s being said, at least not in the, you know, paying attention sense.

 

So, poppycock (hey, if I’m saying “malarkey” I’m all in).

 

Anyway the social media companies (which is what all this is really about) have plenty to answer for already.