{"id":45996,"date":"2021-01-11T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45996"},"modified":"2021-01-11T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T01:24:10","slug":"trump-ban-is-no-violation-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45996","title":{"rendered":"Trump ban is no violation of liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23freespeech%20%23FirstAmendment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/firstamendment_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31292\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/firstamendment_0-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/firstamendment_0-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/firstamendment_0.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time for a brief civics lesson to the minions of Donald J. &#8220;Insurrectionist in Chief&#8221; Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Many of them are yammering that Twitter&#8217;s decision to ban Trump permanently from the social media platform is a violation of the president&#8217;s First Amendment rights of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Ummm, no. It isn&#8217;t. Not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has made liberal use of Twitter to get his message out, to do an end-around the filter of what he calls &#8220;mainstream media.&#8221; He was wildly successful at it, collecting 88 million or so followers. Many of them hung on every pronouncement he made. To be candid, I followed him, too, but only to see what kind of nonsense he would send out there.<\/p>\n<p>He also used it to foment lies, such as the voter fraud lie about the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter took action as a private business and banned him. Why doesn&#8217;t it violate the First Amendment?<\/p>\n<p>The amendment instructs Congress to pass &#8220;no law&#8221; that restricts a number of personal liberties; one of them is free speech. The founders directed the amendment at the legislative branch of government, ordering Congress to refrain from passing laws that inhibit free speech, religious freedom, a free press, freedom to assemble peaceably, to seek redress of grievances against the government.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment <em>does not prohibit<\/em> a private business, such as Twitter, from blocking someone from using that platform to spew lies &#8230; which Donald Trump has done!<\/p>\n<p>There. Civics lesson is over.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23freespeech%20%23FirstAmendment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Time for a brief civics lesson to the minions of Donald J. &#8220;Insurrectionist in Chief&#8221; Trump. Many of them are yammering that Twitter&#8217;s decision to ban Trump permanently from the social media platform is a violation of the president&#8217;s First Amendment rights of free speech. Ummm, no. It isn&#8217;t. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump ban is no violation of liberty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1738,4932],"class_list":["post-45996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-first-amendment","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45997,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45996\/revisions\/45997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}