[ranger_danger]

> If the Supreme Court allows the government to shut down an entire platform on such a flimsy evidentiary record, it would set a disturbing precedent for future government restrictions on online speech.

Something something PATRIOT Act.

[bilbo0s]

The patriot act was supported by everyone when it became law. In fact, one senator had the unmitigated gall to ask the rest of congress, “but what about Constitutional freedoms?”. So the rest of us promptly removed him from office and replaced him with a more law and order type guy. That was pretty much the only resistance to that law at the time.

All that to say, you get what you vote for. And we’ve been voting very poorly for well over thirty years. In any organization, you hire that poorly for that long and you will naturally have some deleterious consequences.

[Hizonner]

> The patriot act was supported by everyone when it became law.

I was at the time a US citizen, and I thought it was moronic authoritarian bullshit. It was basically written by taking every obnoxious proposal that various cops and spies had been having trouble getting passed, shoving them all in one document, and rushing it through unexamined. In response to essentially no surprising new information, at that.

... and lots of other people said that.

I'll give you that the majority of you supported it, and that the people in Congress (who tend to have a personality type with a certain kind of blindness) supported it. "Everyone" didn't support it.