Sorry for the double post but this is just my kind of bullshit to derail a thread about,
The key word here is "unpublicized." The moment any political-affiliated group or organization gets hit with "you're defending Nazis and endangering lives" they will just pack it up. We've seen this happen. It's not so much about SCOTUS, it's about the several new levels that exist between SCOTUS and your every day life and the oligopoly of international tech giants working hand-in-glove with the government to make their dumb jobs easier.
Even now, the government cannot persecute you for free speech, and it must protect that. Unless you're on a huge platform, which is private (despite receiving government subsidies, tax breaks, regulatory deals, etc.,) and have convinced you that they do not either need or should desire to play by these rules. And then these platforms work alongside the government to flag speech, purchases, etc. ISPs do this all the time. The thots getting uppity about facial recognition software ruining their OnlyFans accounts is fuel for our autistic chortling but if anyone can't see where this is leading they're just being willfully optimistic.
So yeah there's a LOT the government can't do, but the government doesn't need to, it just needs its tech oligopoly to break every fucking rule in the book and feed them the data in the interest of Public Safety, which is one of the few things they pride above all else. That was the excuse for the NSA spying on us all by the way. It's always the same excuse. It's much easier if the press is in line with this (they clearly are) and weak politicians are able to be harangued by the most simple-minded cretins to fall in line (they have.) They just banned, what, 150k boomers from Twitter for talking about how Liberal celebrities and elites are evil? The reasoning being "misinformation?" We think we're moving around in the darkness but it's just their hammer is big enough to block out the sun.
Every single day - despite us all in our far-flung corners laughing about how retarded it all is - they're building a case against the words we say, the things we believe, and the ideas we have because those "do harm." That's at least a war we can fight, we cannot fight the insane shitshow that is the government treating Google like it's the shining example of Liberal internationalist values. We can push back against cultural narratives, but not for long, the worst stuff none of us get to decide on and politicians are the least likely people to take on the scale of a system this corrupt.
At this point you realize you pretty much ONLY have SCOTUS on your side, but there's a Metro 2033 labyrinth of trials and tribulations before they even weigh in on anything, and we're still openly discussing that in 10 years even that might not help anyone.
