• zblofu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I absolutely agree that making false medical claims in advertising is not protected speech. Fraud and threats are already criminal and should treated as such, but the types of speech that are being censored are not primarily illegal forms of speech. The types of speech that are being censored are not limited to cases of fraud or threats, they are whatever types of speech the current executive branch deems harmful. I think that is dangerous, even if I also personally agree that those particular types of legal speech are indeed harmful.

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      1 year ago

      I mean according to the article the only stuff they asked to be taken off was false covid stuff… So I don’t think that falls under first amendment rights. It was stuff like the covid vaccine doesn’t work and it will give you AIDS, kinda like yelling fire when there is no fire isn’t protected