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JUST IN: The Supreme Court has dismissed a federal appeals court decision holding that former Pres. Trump violated the Constitution by blocking his critics on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1379099456814133250
At this point, the bigger part of the Hunter Biden story bigger than what the docs revealed about Bidens' influence-peddling in Ukraine & China is how Silicon Valley giants censored the story. Who can justify that election interference & censorship?
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378709242425831426
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says that judges will soon have "no choice" but to regulate the tech companies that punished former President Donald Trump for inciting a failed insurrection.
Thomas made the remarks in a Monday Supreme Court opinion that vacated a lower court ruling, which had prevented Trump from blocking certain Twitter followers who he did not want to comment on his tweets.
Thomas, who traditionally sides with corporations, suggested that the high court would allow Congress to erode the First Amendment by arguing that tech companies do not have the free speech rights to control their platforms.
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"The petitions highlight two important facts. Today's digital platforms provide avenues for historically unprecedented amounts of speech, including speech by government actors," Thomas wrote. "Also unprecedented, however, is the concentrated control of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties."
He added: "We will soon have no choice but to address how our legal doctrines apply to highly concentrated, privately owned information infrastructure such as digital platforms."
The Hollywood Reporter's Eriq Gardner concluded that Thomas is "looking to less-than-subtlety reframe the First Amendment into being about power rather than government censorship."
https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-twitter/
DeSantis, Manatee officials work to prevent 20-foot wall of wastewater at Piney Point
PALMETTO — Acting Manatee County administrator Scott Hopes spent Easter Sunday feeling “much more comfortable today than we were yesterday” about the imminent threat of a reservoir at the former Piney Point phosphate plant collapsing and sending a 20-foot wall of wastewater crashing down on surrounding homes and businesses.
At a Sunday afternoon press conference, Manatee County officials reported “no news was good news.” Vanessa Baugh, chairwoman of the Manatee County Commission, assured residents that their drinking water was safe, saying, “There is no threat to our primary source of drinking water, Lake Manatee.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was on site for an earlier news conference just outside the evacuation zone, where he and county officials laid out their plan to prevent the 77-acre wastewater pond from total collapse after a plastic lining is believed to have torn last week. The reservoir sits among phosphogypsum stacks — high berms made of a substance monitored for its radioactivity.
Millions of gallons of wastewater that remain in the reservoir will be pumped out into Port Manatee or other “large storage containers” coming in from as far away as Wyoming as quickly as possible, Hopes said.
“We’re not out of the critical area yet,” he said.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2021/04/04/desantis-manatee-officials-spell-out-plan-to-prevent-total-collapse-at-piney-point/
Requiring Americans to show proof of vaccination, or a ‘vaccine passport,’ in order to engage in society is outrageous and un-American. This isn’t about containing a virus, but is just another dangerous idea from the Left in their quest for more power and control.
https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1379104844200435713
Russia Russia Russia back in the news
Russia's growing nuclear arsenal and President Biden's inaction on nuclear weapons may put American allies in grave danger, Republicans and defense experts say.
Vladimir Putin's surging nuclear stockpile and military buildup leaves NATO allies all the more in need of protection from the U.S. military, according to Alan Mendoza, the executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank. Mendoza said Europe needs more than Biden's harsh words for Putin's regime, particularly as Democrats weigh Pentagon cuts and advocate against America's nuclear capabilities.
"The world is going to get more rather than less dangerous … that should surely reflect itself back into U.S. defense policy," Mendoza said. "What actually needs to be felt in Europe is that the U.S. will be there to support its NATO allies on the front lines."
Britain has sounded the alarm on Russia’s growing nuclear arms. Nearly half of Russia's nuclear arms are not covered by the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which the Biden administration extended in January. A March security review from London recommended a 40 percent increase in Britain’s nuclear stockpile as fears of Russia's arsenal grow.
For Major General Ferdinand B. Stoss, the director of plans and policy at U.S. Strategic Command, growing nuclear threats from Russia and others to American allies make his task of maintaining a strong nuclear stance all the more important.
Why is the Biden Administration Pushing Ukraine to Attack Russia?
On March 24th, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back Crimea from Russia.
The declaration that Ukraine would take back Crimea from Russia also followed, and was perhaps instigated by, President Biden’s inflammatory and foolish statement that “Crimea is Ukraine.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was a chief architect of the US-backed coup against Ukraine in 2014, continued egging on the Ukrainians, promising full US support for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Many Americans wonder why they are not even half as concerned about the territorial integrity of the United States!
Not to be outdone, at the beginning of this month US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – who previously served on the board of missile-maker Raytheon – called his counterpart in Ukraine and promised “unwavering US support for Ukraine’s sovereignty.” As the US considers Crimea to be Ukrainian territory, this is clearly a clear green light for Kiev to take military action.
Washington is also sending in weapons. Some 300 tons of new weapons have arrived in the past weeks and more is on the way.
As could be expected, Moscow has responded to Zelensky’s decree and to the increasingly bellicose rhetoric in Kiev and Washington by re-positioning troops and other military assets closer to its border with Ukraine. Does anyone doubt that if the US were in the same situation – for example, if China installed a hostile and aggressive government in Mexico – the Pentagon might move troops in a similar manner?
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/why-is-the-biden-administration-pushing-ukraine-to-attack-russia/
What Is Section 230—And Why Does Trump Want To Change It?
Section 230 is a part of federal legislation passed more than 20 years ago. It runs only 26-words long—short and to the point. But it has had an outsize affect on life as we know it.
They are the “26 words that created the Internet,” says Jeff Kosseff, a cybersecurity law professor at the U.S Naval Academy and one of the foremost experts on Section 230.
Most fundamentally, Section 230 provides immunity to social media companies like Facebook and Twitter TWTR -1.3% against being sued over the content on their site. This allows them to operate and flourish without needing to moderate content.
“Section 230 set the legal framework for the internet that we know today that relies heavily on user content rather than content that companies create. Without Section 230, companies would not be willing to take so many risks,” Kosseff says.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/05/28/what-is-section-230-and-why-does-trump-want-to-change-it/?sh=3b9f8a79389d
International Q Research Threads
Australia #15 >>>/qresearch/13341710
Balkan #8 >>>/qresearch/13323637
Brazil #2 >>>/qresearch/13167439
Canada #16 >>>/qresearch/13257333 - >>14
France #4 >>>/qresearch/13269960 – >>16
Germany #78 >>>/qresearch/13348759
Italia #2 >>>/qresearch/13187313 – >>15
Mexico #2 >>>/qresearch/13175781
Nederland #6 >>>/qresearch/13105482 – >>12
New Zealand #8 >>>/qresearch/13163282 – >>17
Nihon [Japan] #1 >>>/qresearch/12219245
Nordic #3 >>>/qresearch/13163911 – >>19
Portugal #2 >>>/qresearch/13187546
Russia #2 >>>/qresearch/13163805
Scotland #4 >>>/qresearch/13163650 – >>6
South Africa #5 >>>/qresearch/13340853 – >>18
UK #36 >>>/qresearch/13235698 – >>3
I know this up to date minus Nihon cause did it muhself
japan need to be updated too,sorry, thought you had that one
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