MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:32PM (#23715750)

The NYT opinion page is hardly a barometer of broad public consensus— see the recent scandal of the Tom Cotton "send in the military" piece.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:01PM (#23716114)

I'm not sure I follow. Opinion polls at the time showed that a significant majority of the public wanted the military sent in.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:05PM (#23716777)

Most of the coverage I saw was people horrified at the constitutional implications of the military being turned on US citizens, on US soil, by order of the president.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:13PM (#23717498)

I mean, there just aren't any constitutional implications - it happened in 1992 with no lasting repercussions.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ceejayoz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:10PM (#23718109)

There are constitutional implications to the use of the Insurrection Act against largely peaceful demonstrations, like the ones in DC at the time it was invoked.

The First Amendment does not protect riots, but it does protect protests outside the White House.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by rickbutton on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:00PM (#23716720)

source?

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