Im not american so i dont know all the freedom of speech laws work but its so fucking convenient that republicans can just decide what is and what isnt freedom of speech.
While this article implies they want to restrict freedom of speech of the businesses, the actual threat is against the town who is distributing the signs. I still think it’s abuse of the state’s oversight powers, but it’s not the 1A violation the article makes it sound like.
Until recently the politicians didn’t really have abuse their power to do this. But since the Republicans have no spine whatsoever, they decided if it’d possible - who’s stopping them.
This is exactly the thing that should be stopped by the first sane person in the chain of rolling this out - but the Rep did a really good job infiltrating most of it.
Im not american so i dont know all the freedom of speech laws work but its so fucking convenient that republicans can just decide what is and what isnt freedom of speech.
You can put anything in your window that isn’t fraudulent, straight pornography or otherwise illegal on its own.
“Kill x” would likely be illegal as it’s incitement to violence. “x need to die” would likely be legal.
While this article implies they want to restrict freedom of speech of the businesses, the actual threat is against the town who is distributing the signs. I still think it’s abuse of the state’s oversight powers, but it’s not the 1A violation the article makes it sound like.
FYI their law is federally illegal
Until recently the politicians didn’t really have abuse their power to do this. But since the Republicans have no spine whatsoever, they decided if it’d possible - who’s stopping them.
This is exactly the thing that should be stopped by the first sane person in the chain of rolling this out - but the Rep did a really good job infiltrating most of it.