• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Well let’s put a flag in this and keep track of it. There is a clear train if conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism with the mainstream media’s coverage of the genocide, in what I hear coming out Congress critters mouths, the banning of toktok, and in all of the coverage I see regarding the student protests.

    I expect this current crackdown if free speech to be explicitly based in the conflation of Israel with Judaism and I see the passage of this law as a direct step in that direction. I hope I’m seriously wrong, but I’m too cynical to out it aside as being explicitly for this purpose.

    No one really knows how if this bull becomes a law, and we don’t know how that will be enforced or adjudicated.

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      6 months ago

      No one really knows how if this bull becomes a law, and we don’t know how that will be enforced or adjudicated.

      This is where I am too. I certainly don’t claim to be a legal scholar, and those that are and those that adjudicate the law in practice will certainly shape it, and any constitutional challenges that follow.