The First Amendment no Longer Means a Damn Thing in CA

HNewsWire: In California, the first amendment is meaningless. It only applies to BLM, ANTIFA, Paedophiles, Drug Cartels, Human Traffickers, Green Idiots, the Democratic Party, Fascists, Marxists, Communists, Tyrants, Criminals, Baby Killers, hobos and bums, and other fanatical leftist SCUMBAGS in NAZI ruled Leftist states! I eagerly await the day when these sickos are all imprisoned for treason and sedition.

Hate speech is defined as any speech that opposes the Marxist Left in Sacramento. I invoked the First Amendment right to free speech.

California now has a first-in-the-nation law mandating social media companies to publicly display their policies on their platforms regarding "hate speech," "disinformation," "harassment," and "extremism," as well as report data on how the policies are being enforced.

The Internet Coalition and other trade organisations representing social media corporations strongly opposed the proposed regulation. Court challenges are being considered, according to trade groups.

In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 587, dubbed the Social Media Transparency and Accountability Act of 2021 and sponsored by Assembly member Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills), saying, "California will not stand by as social media is weaponized to spread hate and disinformation that threatens our communities and our country's foundational values."

On September 14, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signs the CARE (Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment) Court into law alongside state and local leaders and stakeholders in San Jose, California. (Photo courtesy of Governor Gavin Newsom's office) "Californians deserve to know how these platforms are influencing our public conversation, and this move provides much-needed transparency and accountability to the regulations that influence the social media content we consume on a daily basis," Newsom said in a statement.

According to the bill text, the new law mandates social media companies that generate more than $100 million per year to disclose their "terms of service," which are defined as a set of standards that specify "the user behavior and activities that are permitted" on their platforms.

These companies must describe and identify hate speech and disinformation, as well as potential measures against users who breach the policies and contact information for users with policy queries.

They must also investigate the flagged content and offer public information on the sorts and amount of infractions. The California Attorney General must receive a semiannual terms-of-service report no later than January 1, 2024. Noncompliant businesses face fines of up to $15,000 per day for each infraction.

However, Meta—Facebook and Instagram's parent company—has been publishing quarterly reports on how its "community standards" are enforced on the two platforms and how many violations are found in each policy area, including "dangerous organizations: terrorism and organized hate," "regulated goods: drugs and firearms," "child endangerment," "adult nudity and sexual activity," and "fake accounts." The most recent report was published in August.

A person watches Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announce the META logo on a smartphone in this illustration photo shot in Los Angeles on October 28, 2021. (AFP/Chris Delmas via Getty Images)
The Chamber of Progress, an industry consortium that includes Google and Meta, stated last month that it was "definitely" exploring legal action, claiming that such regulations violate the First Amendment.

"It's like ordering a bookstore to disclose to the government whose books it carries, or the New York Times to justify the stories it publishes," the coalition's CEO, Adam Kovacevich, said.

In a recent blog article, Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law in Silicon Valley, stated that AB 587 "has censorial effects."

"Among other issues," Goldman added, "the bill tells social media platforms that they must make special publication judgments in certain categories to suit the authorities and enforcers who are watching them."

"Censorship is the result of the resultant distortions in the platforms' editorial decision-making." Any enforcement proceedings will also be impermissibly intrusive into social media platforms' editorial processes, putting regulators in the middle of the editing process and allowing them to second-guess the platforms' editorial decisions, according to Goldman.

On July 20, 2022, Jonathan Greenblatt attends the Urban League Fights for You Rally on Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Women's Rights, and Economic Justice in Washington, D.C. The new law was supported by prominent civil rights organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, which conducted a "Stop Hiding Hate" campaign in support of the legislation's adoption.

The Anti-Defamation League's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, called the law's passage a "win for internet safety activists across not only California, but the nation." "From the start, [the group] has been certain that the problem of online hate is too serious, and the consequences are too terrible, to do nothing," Greenblatt said. In other words, Communist Newsom is assaulting the first amendment in the same way that every communist state throughout history has.