I think a federal judge just gutted CDA Section 230.

And doesn’t even know it.


Federal judge blocks Florida law that would have fined social media platforms for banning politicians
US District Judge Robert Hinkle of the Northern District of Florida said in issuing a preliminary injunction, “The plaintiffs are likely to prevail on the merits of their claim that these statutes violate the First Amendment. There is nothing that could be severed and survive.” The law was due to go into effect Thursday.


The judge’s claim is that the Florida law violates the companies’ First Amendment rights, free speech. He’s finding that platforms’ content control and user bans are speech; their own speech. But Section 230‘s protection for social media platforms is that it isn’t their speech; they just provide a virtual bulletin board for other people’s speech.

1(c)(1) Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

I think I’ll go prepare a bowl of popcorn and wait for more people to realize what this guy just did.

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That nickname seems more appropriate for Kneepads Harris than Biden

Allegedly, Harris and her team call Biden “Titanic.”


REPORT: KAMALA HARRIS HAS A BRUTAL NEW NICKNAME FOR BIDEN – NOT EVEN JOE WILL FORGET THIS ONE (video)


She’s the one who notoriously went down.

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Doesn’t Bode Well for Texas

Not looking good.


Californians are fueling Austin’s housing frenzy: ‘We’ve never seen migration like this’
Experts say Austin’s boom, particularly during the pandemic, has been accelerated by Californians and Bay Area giants like Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla that are all hiring in Austin. Last year, a record 22,114 jobs were added from companies relocating and expanding in the region, including at least 5,000 from Tesla in its new mega-factory rising just east of Austin, according to the Austin Chamber of Commerce.


If they’re all trying to move to Austin, those are not “conservatives” trying to escape the Dim hellhole for a red state paradise. Those are looters who’ve strip-mined the People’s Republik of Kalifornia and are moving on to a tax-resource rich place to mine.

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I guess you get what you pay for.

What a week… so far. An area Internet outage kept me offline for more than 24 hours. It only came up a few minutes ago, and already…

A few days ago, The Zelman Partisans reported on a recent 6th Circuit panel ruling on bump stocks. Finally logging in, I find this comment:

Geoff:
This happened way back in March. You are just now reporting on it?

Excuse us. TZP is small. The folks actively researching and writing on these matters are a handful. We are not well-funded. We — I, specifically — write about issues as I become aware of them. Besides the usual firearm-related news, I struggle to keep up with the status of a few hundred bills in Congress, and more lawsuits than I can count.* While early on I attempted to follow all the bump-fire stock cases (especially the ones in which I and TZP are cited), I lost control of that when the number of those cases alone went over ten.

I do what I can.

If someone wants me to keep up specifically with their pet issue, they can make it fiscally possible to focus on it. Hit my tip jar, and maybe I won’t have to “waste” my time on other things. For that matter, if you want The Zelman Partisans to do your news tracking for you, become a paid member (which “Geoff” doesn’t appear to be). We don’t have many members, not enough to actually support operations — I don’t get paid –, so basically what we do is done gratis. You’re welcome.

Sorry about the whining over such seemingly petty BS; but when I’m struggling to pay my bills, it pissed me off to come out of an extended ‘Net outage to find someone else whining that I’m not providing free shit for him fast enough. Must be a Democrat.


* And there’s the stream of emails from people asking advice on what orgs to support, where to find assorted state and federal laws, more state-level legislation, and so on. Oh, yeah; and the occasional congressional staffer asking for guidance on firearms, ATF, or more legislation. I’m the go-to guy for a surprising number of folks, considering I’m just an unpaid nobody.

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Let’s see how that could play out.

A dipstick asks a stupid question.

If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

But I ask you: even if it was, even if guns were banned tomorrow, why should we be so afraid? If you know and love Jesus and are going to spend eternity in Heaven with him, why does the idea of not having guns anymore scare you so much?

I could imagine it going something like this.


-BANG!-

Argh!

-appears before the Judge-

Whu…?

You. Stupid. Fuck. I gave you the greatest possible gift: LIFE. And you threw it away. You passively gave in to evil. AND you left your children defenseless against evil. You let evil triumph and destroy the greatest gift.

I/WE tried to explain this to you. That bit about “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword”? That meant actively AGGRESSING against others unnecessarily; a life of violence.

I/WE also told you “if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.” That was so you would have defensive tools to fight evil.

But… but…

You know what? You SURRENDERED to evil; evil can have you.

-hits down button-

Eeeee….! -scream fades into distance-

NEXT!


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New column at The Zelman Partisans

NO; MAGAZINES ARE NOT GUNS
Plaintiffs stupidly argued that “firearm” includes “magazine,” and the store made an unlawful sale. More than two years ago, I rather vehemently disagreed. Sadly, the lower court displayed a level of idiocy on par with plaintiffs and allowed the case to go forward.

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If you get a security warning from your browser when trying to read my blog…

See “BROWSER SITE SECURITY WARNING” in sidebar; it’s there for a reason. It’s a known issue. No, I can’t install a free SSL certificate. Feel free to donate so I can pay for one.

By the way, viewing my site with Dissenter, Firefox, Chromium, Pale Moon, Brave, and Tor browsers I do not get this warning. Some of you may want to take a look at what addons/extensions you have installed.

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[Update] I expect Make A Wish donations to tank after this.

See update below. They folded.

At least, I hope they tank. Via Twitter:

Richard Davis, CEO of @MakeAWish Foundation is refusing to grant wishes to kids/families who are not fully vaccinated.
Imagine that convo between a parent and this dick for a moment “Sorry, johnny can’t have his DYING wish because he is not vaccinated… he might get COVID”

That is sick. No wishes for immuno-compromised dying children, unless they’re fully pseudovaccinated with “vaccines” that aren’t even approved for those under 12. No wishes for dying children in the age range most prone to myocarditis/pericarditis associated with the vaccines.

What; does Davis want to make sure they die faster, so MAW doesn’t have to expend funds on them?

Added: If you would like to tell MAW what you think about this, here is their CONTACT PAGE.

Added 2:


Make-A-Wish Foundation Backs Down And Decides NOT To Mandate Vaccines For Wish Kids
“We understand that there are many families whose children aren’t eligible for the vaccine yet, and we also know that there are families who are choosing to not get the vaccine. We respect everyone’s freedom of choice. Make-a-Wish will continue to grant wishes for all eligible children. Make-a-Wish will not require anyone to get vaccinated to receive a wish,” Make-A-Wish declared Sunday.


Too late, assholes. You demonstrated such poor judgement that I fully expect more callous BS out of you. No donations from me.

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