{"id":1446543,"date":"2023-12-29T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1446543"},"modified":"2023-12-29T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T00:55:00","slug":"are-you-in-an-anti-free-speech-state-we-now-have-the-definitive-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/are-you-in-an-anti-free-speech-state-we-now-have-the-definitive-list\/1446543\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You In An Anti-Free-Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Are You In An Anti-Free-Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/12\/29\/are-you-in-an-anti-free-speech-state-we-now-have-the-definitive-list\/\"><em>Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For years, we have discussed the alarming shift in the Democratic party on free speech with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/11\/07\/running-on-censorship-a-california-candidate-seeks-to-ride-the-anti-free-speech-wave\/\">candidates running on pledges to censor<\/a>\u00a0opposing views and politicians\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/09\/06\/fighting-monsters-how-many-democrats-are-adopting-rationales-once-used-against-the-left-to-silence-orjail-critics\/\">supporting blacklisting and censorship<\/a>\u00a0on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-12-29_10-15-04.jpg?itok=ea02lF0h\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many citizens oppose such efforts to restrict their rights under the First Amendment, but are unaware of the work of their representatives to limit free speech. Now, a filing in the Supreme Court supporting censorship efforts by the Biden Administration has supplied a handy list of the anti-free speech states for citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 5th Circuit previously ruled in\u00a0<em>Missouri v. Biden\u00a0<\/em>that administration officials \u201clikely violated\u201d the First Amendment and issued a preliminary injunction banning the government from communicating with social media companies to limit speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the state of California is leading the effort to get the Supreme Court to reverse a decision enjoining the government from censorship efforts.<\/p>\n<p>California has long sought to impose speech limits on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/10\/07\/california-repeals-disinformation-law-targeting-doctors-with-opposing-views-of-covid\/\">doctors<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/12\/27\/new-callifornia-law-requires-stores-to-carry-gender-neutral-toys\/\">businesses<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2017\/03\/30\/california-politician-seeks-to-radically-curtail-free-speech-to-combat-fake-news\/\">citizens<\/a>\u00a0to silence opposing viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However,\u00a0\u00a023 Democrat-led states joined this ignoble effort in signing on to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/system\/files\/attachments\/press-docs\/Missouri%20v.%20Biden--New%20York%20et%20al.%20Amicus%20Br.%20%28STAMPED%29.pdf\">brief<\/a>\u00a0of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The brief lauds past efforts of these states to combat \u201charmful content\u201d on the Internet and to protect the public from \u201cmisleading information\u201d through partnerships with social media companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arizona<\/p>\n<p>Colorado<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut<\/p>\n<p>Delaware<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>Illinois<\/p>\n<p>Maine<\/p>\n<p>Maryland<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p>Michigan<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>Nevada<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico,<\/p>\n<p>New York<\/p>\n<p>Oregon<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island<\/p>\n<p>Vermont<\/p>\n<p>Washington<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p>District of Columbia<\/p>\n<p><em>Here is the brief:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Missouri-v.-Biden-New-York-et-al.-Amicus-Br.-STAMPED.pdf\">Missouri v. Biden\u2013New York et al. Amicus Br.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 12\/29\/2023 &#8211; 14:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/are-you-anti-free-speech-state-we-now-have-definitive-list\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/are-you-anti-free-speech-state-we-now-have-definitive-list<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are You In An Anti-Free-Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List Authored by Jonathan Turley, For years, we have discussed the alarming shift in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}