"Citing the First Amendment right to “engage in political speech,” a judge has ruled that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado cannot dodge a defamation lawsuit filed against her by political activists critical of her during her 2022 reelection run."
"In a 3–2 vote, the FCC voted to restore Net Neutrality protections & reclassify high-speed-internet access services as telecom services subject to Title II of the Communications Act.
The decision is a major victory for the public interest: Title II authority empowers the FCC to hold companies: AT&T, Comcast, Spectrum... accountable for a wide range of harms to internet users across the US, fast, open +fair for all of us.”
#McAfee also wrote that he was unble to find "any authority that the speech & conduct alleged is #protected#political speech."
The protection afforded specifically by the Petition Clause of the #FirstAmendment -which allows the ability to communicate w/govt ofcls- "does not extend to allegedly #fraudulent petitions.”
"In other words, the #law does not insulate speech allegedly made during fraudulent or #criminal conduct from prosecution under the guise of petitioning the govt," he wrote. #Trump