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This a joke ? Carr is a lawyer and he’s quoting “selling burgers “as a source Then references the twitter files please for the love of God tell me I’ve misunderstood this

He’s thug now and the threat of jail doesn’t phase his masculine energy.

WTF does the First Amendment have to do with a privately owned company?

In their warped interpretation, maybe....

And Zuckerberg, who advocates for more-better "masculinity", caved to the bully!

Carr is clearly not a 1A attorney, but he is a thug. Private entities are not restricted by 1A.

So next administration... Trump bullied me Joe Rogan?

Is there a way to let MSM know? — So this information doesn’t just twist in the wind of this little echo chamber? It all seems kind of important.

Carr in his email/letter Mentions Michael Shellenberger and the twitter files like they are reliable and undisputed sources of truth IMHO we are in deep do do

You are probably right 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Reads like using the FCC to go after potential political rivals.

from Day One.

The pathetic irony here is that a free enterprise moderating content on its social media platform is not a 1st amendment violation but the government pressuring a free enterprise on how to do its content moderation is arguably a 1st amendment violation.

I’m taking a small step back and thinking about what it means when the party in power is pressuring people / media enterprises to stop fact checking. It’s not good. Goebbels would be proud.

Sadly, much of the country, including “leaders” like Carr and Elon, completely misunderstand the 1st amendment. If Zuck buckled under that threat he either somehow doesn’t understand the 1st amendment or he’s a coward (or both).

Which is super weird bc the first words of the First Amendment are "Congress shall make no law..."

The 1st. amendment protects us from what the government can do to us. 1st. amendment gives you the right to lie. The question is whether or not its fundamentally wrong and immoral to lie, or agents of state to lie. It doesn't protect you from what the public will do to you if they keep lying

Submission in advance rather than making the FCC take META to court

Or that fact-checking is not, in fact, against the first amendment, which specifically states that the GOVERNMENT may not suppress speech. It says nothing about a private business stopping its pig toilet users from calling trans people 'it.'

I hope that guy isn't an actual lawyer, and feel sorry for the Bar if he is.

The head of the FCC doesn’t understand the 1st Amendment. Great.

Zuck is a cuck! It’s your company fact check if you want Jesus F Christ!

No. You have it exactly backwards. Section 230 says you can remove posts all you want without liability. Which is also *protected* by the 1st Amendment.

All these years I thought that the 1st Amendment was to prevent govt intrusion in private speech. My bad…

Because he's ONE OF THEM.

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America is loosing it to Russia. Rogan, Z, Musk etc etc are Russian assets manipulating US for their own personal profits. Wake the fuck UP!!

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The letter is blackmail, pure and simple! Carr threatens to revoke Section 230 of the Communications Act's liability protection to Big Tech companies for content posted by users on their platforms. Gives context to Zuckerberg's elimination of fact checking.

Does this also apply to the news media? If the press fact checks the lies spewed out by Trump and Musk, etc will they be in legal jeopardy? Really, folks, we are sinking deep into George Orwell territory.

Biden does not have enough billionaire cronies kissing his ass.

Can’t we even TRY to tell people that the FIRST AMENDMENT APPLIES TO GOVERNMENT, not private businesses.

Holy shit! Good luck USA…

From the letter: "As exposed by the Twitter Files, [fact checker] NewsGuard is a for-profit company that operates as part of the broader censorship cartel." But Elon Musk buying the 'public square' to spam and censor is not for-profit company censorship?

Seriously? That's not remotely against the 1st, especially since Facebook /is a private company/. We're right back into "free speech means freedom from consequences" territory. Not to mention that "You can't even tell us when we're wrong" is... um, so concerning on so many other levels.

It has ALWAYS been about letting social media spout their conspiracy theories and lies! Just like now, where all the critics on the right don't know a thing about what happened, how to solve it, how to fix it, how to prevent it, or how to pay for it.

Fact checking is not against the First Amendment.

That Carr letter reads like something cranked out by a TPUSA intern.

#MetaMAGA Mark having some serious recall problems. So glad to be leaving the hate universe. Be fun to watch from afar as they eat each other alive, their pathetic cannibalism will give a lovely light.

Which makes one hate Zuck even more.

Carr set a deadline to answer of Dec. 10. Any response should be public record, no? And Meta wasn’t the only recipient. www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

Like his buddy the CONVICTED FELON, he’s an absolute and total LIAR.

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Hi @mmasnick.bsky.social flagging an update on Carr. bsky.app/profile/medi...

This is where a reputation for honesty would help, if he was known for being honest and open we might be able to excuse some of the obvious lying and not worry so much about what is getting said in those secret meetings with Trump.

This is a bad faith response as it applies to the actions of Brendan Carr

That him threatening a private company over speech is a First Amendment issue. What's yours?

He's been so obvious about it too, with those suck-up op-eds criticizing Dems for slow rural broadband rollout but BEAD isn't the whole game, and it takes a hot minute to set up a huge federal program, especially when most of it is happening in the middle of a pandemic. Meanwhile,

The sewer blockage known as ajit pai *sad trombone*

I’m assuming if you ask CattGPT to make an argument more convincing enough times, they’ll put the point in cartoonish font with a poorly drawn stick figure. Randall Monroe has done more for explaining complicated concepts than anyone alive today.

Y’all can say whatever you want, make Coherent arguments, point out contradictions. Doesn’t matter- MAGA is creating their own rules, and they will IMPOSE them. Welcome to post-constitutional (US ) dystopia

Cowardice but also it’s just exhausting fact checking during a Trump reign.