The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.

The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
    162·
    11 months ago

    That sounds like the government is trying to interfere with free speech and the free market.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      55·
      11 months ago

      Definitely. Republicans are big fans of “let the market decide” and big opponents of “big government dictating what companies should do” until the market decides against them. Then, suddenly, the Republicans are big fans of the government deciding what companies should do and opponents of the free market.

      The levels of hypocrisy never fail to amaze me.

    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
      12·
      11 months ago

      I am pretty sure this is pure virtue signaling that will be overturned. The article mentions that “Israel boycott” laws have been upheld, but I’m unsure of either the effectiveness of those laws (ie what has to be demonstrated if the entity doesn’t say they’re not entering a contract for political reasons but rather has another justification) or the applicability (since my guess is that the BDS stuff falls under some stretch of the government being the only entity allowed to effect foreign policy decisions, but I’m not sure of the actual legal basis and I’m too tired to research it at the moment).

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      It shows the right never cared about FREEZED PEACH. What they want is a platform like Xitter to be run by a twerp like Space Karen in such a way as to maximize liberal “ownage” and to platform Nazis, and, ideally, give people no way to completely opt out of their dreck.

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml
      73·
      11 months ago

      Always have been. Just read up the CIAs capitalist black ops but their might not be a lot of information about it.