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No, but it can't be criminally prosecuted, either.

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Oct 10, 2024, 4:39 PM

You are either for free speech or not and that includes information the Government deems "misinformation". So if you oppose the Florida Government in this case then you should also oppose a whole host of Democrats who seek to censor/force social media to censor anything they (i.e. the Government) deem as "misinformation".

IMO Government censorship of free speech is BS - even when the Government wants to censor speech they have identified as "misinformation". About the only exceptions I have for free speech is direct calls for violence. If you agree with me great....

Because it should be noted that the Florida Government (Florida Dept of Health) are going after this particular Amendment 4 ad for the same reasons as a whole cast of Democrats are desiring Government censorship - all under the guise of stopping "misnformation".

In this case, the ad in question is blatantly spreading misinformation to scare people into supporting their position. That misinformation being that Florida's six week abortion law does not allow exceptions to save the life/health of the mother. This is simply not true - even PolitiFact begrudgingly agrees that it is not true.

But I always fall on the side of freedom of speech - even in this case. I simply don't want the Government in the business of censoring speech as some unbiased arbiter of truth. Instead, Government should fight misinformation the same way it always has prior to 2016 - by being truthful and providing the public with the truth when faced with misinformation.

So - IMO the Florida Government should be flooding the airwaves with the facts of the current law to show that the ad in question is untruthful. Florida could very easily do it by taking parts of this ad and then show the specific language in the Florida law where the ad is lying. Discredit the ad by showing the truth - not by censorship.

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I thought CNN fired Brian Stelter for being a perv ?

Whitch judge was mentioned?

Is it really free speech to broadcast something that is catagorically false?

No, but it can't be criminally prosecuted, either.

Some actually think he is a good politician with a future atop the GOP.

Trump and the SCOTUS proved the Constitution doesnt matter anymore***

Ok... but you can't have it both ways....

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