Warren: Thou shalt not search

[George K]

https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/27/sen-elizabeth-warren-sued-for-asking-amazon-to-suppress-covid-book-in-search-results/

Chelsea Greene Publishing is suing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for allegedly abusing her political authority to push Amazon to censor their book titled, “The Truth About COVID-19.” The publisher alleges serious First Amendment violations.

On September 7, 2021, Warren sent an official letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy urging him to suppress the bestseller written by Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins in Amazon’s search results for “perpetuating dangerous conspiracies about COVID-19 and false and misleading information about vaccines.”

Chelsea Greene responded by filing a lawsuit accusing Warren of “violating the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by seeking to stop booksellers from selling and/or promoting” their book. The lawsuit cites the Supreme Court case Bantam Books v. Sullivan, which held that government officials violated the First Amendment by “sending letters to booksellers warning the sale of certain books was potentially unlawful.”

The ruling established that even though private companies have the right to censor speech within their platforms, they can’t do it on behalf of a government agent. It is unconstitutional for state officials to pressure a private company to suppress “objectionable” speech.

According to Warren’s letter, a search on Amazon’s website using the keywords “COVID-19” and “vaccine” would list the book as the first result. Warren concluded the letter by calling Amazon to modify its algorithms “so that they no longer do so.”

[Mik]

She's bucking to head up the Ministry of Truth.

[jon-nyc]

“She has a plan for everything” => There’s nothing she doesn’t want to control.

[Ivorythumper]

@jon-nyc said in Warren: Thou shalt not search:

“She has a plan for everything” => There’s nothing she doesn’t want to control.

You seem to have taken a hard right in the past few years...

[Mik]

On some things he has always been pretty conservative.

[LuFins Dad]

I don’t think that Jon’s changed, just the party has moved further to the left. Kind of like like Bill Maher… I can’t believe I find myself and Maher agreeing…

[Mik]

Me and the GOP.

[Jolly]

@lufins-dad said in Warren: Thou shalt not search:

I don’t think that Jon’s changed, just the party has moved further to the left. Kind of like like Bill Maher… I can’t believe I find myself and Maher agreeing…

I dunno. The red MAGA hat kinda gives Jon away...

[Mik]

Yeah, but with a white shirt and those blue shoes he's downright patriotic.

On second thought he might not need the shirt. He's plenty white already.

[George K]

@mik said in Warren: Thou shalt not search:

Yeah, but with a white shirt and those blue shoes he's downright patriotic.

On second thought he might not need the shirt. He's plenty white already.

Could be worse: khakis and a ball cap.

(tiki-torch and sunglasses at your discretion)