Absalom
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
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Rather, the actual Constitutional issue is whether the Constitution allows a government to pass a law requiring GoDaddy to not discriminate against speech on the basis of its pro-gun content.....
The problem with this discussion is that we really do not know whether that is in fact the issue here.
We’d need full disclosure of the specific content which the AR15 forum was told to remove and did not within GoDaddy’s deadline. Only then could we determine whether we are in fact dealing with discrimination on the basis of pro-gun content, or whether this case isn’t in fact much narrower and situation-specific.
Given the date of the original infraction, Jan. 8th, and the context of the times, it is easily possible to envision a thread with material which could not pass the Supreme Court’s limits last affirmed in the Brandenburg case in 1969, about “shouting fire in a crowded theater” applied to inciting violence.