The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.

  • flipht@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Many governmental entities will not contract with companies that “boycott Israel.”

    This, of course, is poorly defined. And is being litigated in Michigan, I believe.

    But the argument from regressive AGs is that boycott is not speech - it’s action, and therefore they are permitted to enforce a ban on that action.

    Pretty shit tier argument, and one that will probably bite them in the ass if there’s any chance of consistency from the supreme court (slim chance.)

    The hypocrisy is the point.

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      11 months ago

      So money is speech and free if it’s used for political campaigns, but it’s not speech if you choose not to buy from or work for a specific country.

      I hate this world.