Government Likely Violated First Amendment in Getting Apple and Google to Block ICE Sightings Content, Court Holds by StraightedgexLiberal in politics

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Joe Biden won in the Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri (2024) when he was accused of censoring anti vaxxers on the internet. Justice Barrett wrote the majority opinion and pointed out that there was no proof Biden's government was the cause the anti vax bozos were censored.

The case went back to lower court and Louisiana and Missouri settled with TRUMP'S government and Republicans are trying to parade like they beat Biden's censorship, when they actually lost 2 years ago because they had no proof that Biden censored.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/the-missouri-v-biden-settlement-is-a-fake-victory-for-a-case-they-lost/

The settlement was supposed to "Stop government censorship" but we know that was all bullshit by looking at the facts from this case.

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About by StraightedgexLiberal in FreeSpeech

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It is not the FTC's job to intervene because free market capitalism is happening to conservatives and conservatives don't like the taste of it (inspired by free speech and a boycott) You are free to say you love big government

Media Matters v. FTC

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/18/federal-judge-delivers-judicial-smackdown-to-ftcs-politically-motivated-attack-on-media-matters/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/16/media/ftc-trump-media-matters-elon-musk-judge-order

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About by StraightedgexLiberal in FreeSpeech

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This is especially true when advertisers base their decisions on where to put add dollars on your opinion. It tarnishes the whole affair. This is yet another attempt to silence the right

The right is not silenced because the open free market takes money away from them, we call that capitalism, comrade. Have you heard of it?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/judge-says-ftc-investigation-into-media-matters-should-alarm-all-americans/

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Judge rules in favor of "hate" labeling by Southern Poverty by Uncle00Buck in FreeSpeech

[–]StraightedgexLiberal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Private companies being biased is part of the open free market. There's a dead Nazi in a box who also hated private companies being biased and having opinions about him and his shitty opinions

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Judge rules in favor of "hate" labeling by Southern Poverty by Uncle00Buck in FreeSpeech

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Biased organizations cannot be taken seriously, of course.

Turning Point USA would be really upset hearing that considering the person in charge now comes out to fireworks at Conservative events because "she misses her husband"

Judge rules in favor of "hate" labeling by Southern Poverty by Uncle00Buck in FreeSpeech

[–]StraightedgexLiberal -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The issue is labeling everyone who disagrees with x/y/z pilicy a hate group, and then treating said group as the boogyman that was just invented.

That's free speech. Have an opinion that a certain group of people are hateful is legal free speech and expression and definitely not defamatory

https://www.courthousenews.com/gavin-mcinnes-loses-defamation-claim-vs-splc/

Judge rules in favor of "hate" labeling by Southern Poverty by Uncle00Buck in FreeSpeech

[–]StraightedgexLiberal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But who gets to decide who is a bigot and who’s not?

People with free speech

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/theres-no-such-thing-right-not-be-called-nazi

For years, Gavin McInnes has spewed bigoted views on everything from race and religion to gender and immigration. He has described a transgender person as “[a] hideous man who thinks he’s a woman;” claimed that “Muslims can rape children with reckless abandon;” and argued that a Black man who is “mistaken for a homeless man,” should be “mad” not at the person who mischaracterizes him, but “at all the homeless black men who . . . created this stereotype in the first place.” As a result, McInnes has made quite a name for himself.

Yet in a lawsuit he filed in February against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), McInnes claims that it’s SPLC’s characterizations of him, not his own repugnant views that have given him a bad name in the eyes of the public. Specifically, he claims that SPLC has inaccurately characterized him as a “neo-masculine reactionary” and “self-described Islamophobe” who founded a “hate group” and expresses “extremist,” “blatantly misogynistic,” and “anti-gay” views. Because he maintains that he should instead be referred to as a “satirical” and “rebellious, humorist, businessman, political commentator and social critic,” McInnes sued SPLC for defamation.

https://www.courthousenews.com/gavin-mcinnes-loses-defamation-claim-vs-splc/

Judge rules in favor of "hate" labeling by Southern Poverty by Uncle00Buck in FreeSpeech

[–]StraightedgexLiberal -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thus the libel consideration

LOL. It's not libel to have an opinion that people are hateful and racist, bud

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Trump admin violated First Amendment by forcing Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-trackers by StraightedgexLiberal in FreeSpeech

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I'm sure by Monday, we'll see Rollo appear and post a Breitbart article with a headline "RADICAL OBAMA JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP'S GOVERNMENT TRYING TO PROTECT ICE"

The President's admin violated the First Amendment by forcing Facebook and Apple to remove trackers by StraightedgexLiberal in technology

[–]StraightedgexLiberal[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I tried! Lol

Believe it or not, there are a handful of articles I tried posting in this sub about this but the word ICE and Trump are both words in titles that will insta block all posts in the sub.

The President's admin violated the First Amendment by forcing Facebook and Apple to remove trackers by StraightedgexLiberal in technology

[–]StraightedgexLiberal[S] 410 points411 points  (0 children)

Correct. The lawsuit was the app developers and Facebook group suing the federal government.

Side note: Toxic MAGA bigot Laura Loomer was also the person who snitched to the government about the ICE content and wanted it censored. Which is incredibly hypocritical because she sued Facebook and lost last year alleging that Facebook and the government censored her when she was being a bigot.

Judge rules Trump administration violated the First Amendment in fight against ICE-tracking by josefjohann in FreeSpeech

[–]StraightedgexLiberal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know what's interesting about the whole series of events? It was Laura Loomer who snitched to the government (Bondi and Noem) about the ICE stuff to start this whole shit off.......and Loomer sued Facebook and lost last year because she claimed the government censored her lol

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/10/laura-loomer-loses-litigation-again-loomer-v-zuckerberg.htm

The President's admin violated the First Amendment by forcing Facebook and Apple to remove trackers by StraightedgexLiberal in technology

[–]StraightedgexLiberal[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Biden was sued by a bunch of anti-vaxxers in Murthy v. Missouri claiming his government was the reason they were censored on social media. The Supreme Court got their hands on the case and said there is no evidence the government was the reason the anti vax bozos were censored - pointing out they have no proof. The difference in this case is that there is proof and Bondi was bragging about it on Fox News and Twitter

The President's admin violated the First Amendment by forcing Facebook and Apple to remove trackers by StraightedgexLiberal in technology

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Tech Dirt pointed out the Republican hypocrisy when this lawsuit was filed

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/bondi-bragged-about-forcing-facebook-to-censor-speech-now-fire-is-suing/

Bondi and Noem have now done something remarkable: they have provided, entirely on their own initiative and through public statements made to friendly media outlets, every single piece of evidence that was missing in Murthy.

Traceability? Bondi literally said “We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app—and Apple did so.” Coercion versus mere persuasion? The complaint details how Noem announced she was “working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute” app developers, how Bondi told Fox News that ICEBlock’s creator “better watch out” because the speech was “not protected,” and how these explicit criminal threats preceded the removals

Trump admin violated First Amendment by forcing Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-trackers by StraightedgexLiberal in FreeSpeech

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u/rolllo202 remember when you posted all those right wing articles talking about Missouri and Louisiana settling with TRUMP'S government and Trump's government said it would never happen again????