This seems like a wildly unconstitutional reach. I know it doesn't really matter, since power selectively applies its restrictions, but going :wojak-nooo: over shitposters is a new bizarre low.
I thought it was a 1st Amendment right to disseminate propaganda since it is political opinion, even if you're a foreign national, when it is in the jurisdiction of the United States.
That'll be their lawyers' defense probably, but I doubt it'll matter. Federal prosecutors have a leg up over defense attorneys from the get go, and any juror who hasn't been in cryogenic storage since the 1970s has been raised on a lifetime of China bad! conditioning.
It's a new McCarthyism under a more desparate administration. The priority is to batten down the hatches and preserve the fed's degrading institutional legitmacy at all costs, including it and allied media institutions' monopoly on information.
Yeah, I agree with that. The aggressive, hilariously anti-free speech and anti-press clamp down on "russian" source, the constant repetition of messaging about russian propaganda, several high profile arrests on laughable charges of people acting as foreign agents, the constant outrage over tiktok, over chinese produced tech, and on and on and on. Seems like it's all ramping up towards show trials for sedition and being insufficiently patriotic about the evil designated enemy
This seems like a wildly unconstitutional reach. I know it doesn't really matter, since power selectively applies its restrictions, but going :wojak-nooo: over shitposters is a new bizarre low.
I thought it was a 1st Amendment right to disseminate propaganda since it is political opinion, even if you're a foreign national, when it is in the jurisdiction of the United States.
That'll be their lawyers' defense probably, but I doubt it'll matter. Federal prosecutors have a leg up over defense attorneys from the get go, and any juror who hasn't been in cryogenic storage since the 1970s has been raised on a lifetime of China bad! conditioning.
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Oh so then this is just the feds throwing a temper tantrum
So are they "making an example" to chill dissenting speach or is this just some kind of fishing expedition?
It's a new McCarthyism under a more desparate administration. The priority is to batten down the hatches and preserve the fed's degrading institutional legitmacy at all costs, including it and allied media institutions' monopoly on information.
Yeah, I agree with that. The aggressive, hilariously anti-free speech and anti-press clamp down on "russian" source, the constant repetition of messaging about russian propaganda, several high profile arrests on laughable charges of people acting as foreign agents, the constant outrage over tiktok, over chinese produced tech, and on and on and on. Seems like it's all ramping up towards show trials for sedition and being insufficiently patriotic about the evil designated enemy
It's 1957, but it's 1968, but it's 1982, but it's 2003, but it's 2016