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LordoftheMorons posted...

The 5th Circuit, which a week or two ago ruled that companies have a First Amendment right to not cover preventative medicine for AIDS in their employees' health insurance, ruled that companies don't have a First Amendment right to moderate user generated content:

This is, perhaps, the worst part of the increasing illegitimacy of the Supreme Court. There will be unnerving inconsistencies in the law. The politicization of the court has largely allowed this. We're left to the whims of the Supreme Court on any given date. Conservatives have long counted on Democrats not returning the favor should the winds blow their way. They believe that if the political winds blow the way of Democrats, that it will simply be a setback for their agenda, and the Democrats will not take the same advantages they did to create inconsistent laws based on the whims of their party. It's the gamble they've made, and one that is currently paying off. Democrats need to play Mutually Assured Destruction at this point.