{"id":14946,"date":"2018-10-01T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14946"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:56:20","slug":"censoring-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/10\/01\/censoring-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Censoring the Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Twitter is openly blocking doubleplusungood tweets that utter the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/twitter-blocks-posts-that-use-phrase-illegal-alien-as-hateful-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal alien<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Slight problem is that that is an actual term used in actual Federal Law:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Does Twitter now ban the plain text of federal law?  8 U.S. Code \u00a7 1252c is entitled \u201cAuthorizing State and local law enforcement officials to arrest and detain certain illegal aliens.\u201d  It authorizes the state or local arrest of illegal alien felons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VOnyhcTaqV\">https:\/\/t.co\/VOnyhcTaqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1040254319474429952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Even if one could trust Twitter to honestly act solely out of a desire to stop heated rhetoric (stop laughing), filters don&#8217;t grok context, such as use in an actual law on the books. This won&#8217;t end well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trust-and-safety.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trust-and-safety.jpg 364w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trust-and-safety-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Censoring the Law?\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Twitter is openly blocking doubleplusungood tweets that utter the phrase 'illegal alien'.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trust-and-safety.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Twitter is openly blocking doubleplusungood tweets that utter the phrase &#8220;illegal alien&#8220;. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Slight problem is that that is an actual term used in actual Federal Law: Does Twitter now ban the plain text of federal law? 8 U.S. Code \u00a7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/10\/01\/censoring-the-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[33,24,48],"class_list":["post-14946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-gop","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14948,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions\/14948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}