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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by CyberRabbi on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:47PM (#24791457)
Judges do not enforce laws, they apply laws to specific situations, otherwise known as interpreting the law.

“Congress shall make no law” is the text of the first amendment, which is in regard to limiting free expression, not expanding it.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by amanaplanacanal on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:27PM (#24794942)
Wouldn’t Congress have to make a law for judges to step in here, though? I’m not sure what you are suggesting, exactly.
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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by CyberRabbi on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:05PM (#24797035)
No. Congress makes a law that declares the right to free speech to be a civil right. Judges would naturally step in when there is a contested violation of that right, as they currently do in all civil rights disputes .
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