{"id":47906,"date":"2021-05-05T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47906"},"modified":"2021-05-05T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T17:43:35","slug":"no-first-amendment-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47906","title":{"rendered":"No First Amendment problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><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><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A word to the right-wing wackos who are going bonkers over Facebook&#8217;s decision to keep Donald Trump off the social medium &#8230; for now: settle down and take a deep breath!<\/p>\n<p>The Trump cultists in Congress are bitching about so-called First Amendment infringements because Facebook, a privately held media company, has decided it cannot allow someone to use its platform to call for an insurrection against the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>That is what Trump did on Jan. 6. So it banned the former president. It decided to make a firm decision later on the extent of Trump&#8217;s banishment.<\/p>\n<p>As for Trump&#8217;s First Amendment free speech guarantee, it is still there. Trump can yap, yammer and yeowl all he wants about the 2020 election being &#8220;stolen.&#8221; Of course that is just so much bullsh**. Trump knows it. I certainly do. So do you as well.<\/p>\n<p>The First Amendment allows Trump to spew such nonsense. It doesn&#8217;t prohibit a private firm from exercising its own policy-making ability on who gets to speak out and who faces the muzzle.<\/p>\n<p>So, right-wing blowards? You need to pipe down.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com A word to the right-wing wackos who are going bonkers over Facebook&#8217;s decision to keep Donald Trump off the social medium &#8230; for now: settle down and take a deep breath! The Trump cultists in Congress are bitching about so-called First Amendment infringements because Facebook, a privately held media company, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No First Amendment problem<\/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":[10,13],"tags":[1424,1676,1738],"class_list":["post-47906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-first-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47906","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=47906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47907,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47906\/revisions\/47907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}