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Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, decided to weigh in on Ted Cruz abandoning his constituents for a trip to sunny Cancun while some of them literally froze to death. Gaetz came out hard defending Cruz.
No ethics Matt Gaetz criticized for having no moral high ground Matt Gaetz image viaWikipedia.
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, decided to weigh in on Ted Cruz
More specifically, Gaetz gaslighted the general public, by saying, Ted Cruz should not have apologized.
The Senator from Texas who used his two little girls as a shield for his bad behavior did not apologize. It was obviously a mistake and in hindsight I wouldn t have done it, which is what Cruz told reporters, is no apology.
Many have accepted Gaetz s false claim that Cruz apologized, but blasted him for saying that Cruz should have gone further, and resigned.
Fri, Feb 19th 2021 10:52am
Mike Masnick
Earlier this month, we wrote about how various Republicans in state legislatures were introducing blatantly unconstitutional bills that tried to do away with Section 230 and which all attempted to block the ability of websites to do any content moderation. Many of the bills were nearly identical (and may have come from Chris Sevier, the profoundly troubled individual, who
somehow keeps convincing state legislators to introduce blatantly unconstitutional bills that attack speech online). One of the bills we mentioned was from North Dakota. Lawyer Akiva Cohen points out that the North Dakota bill has been updated. and (incredibly) made
Jerry LambeFeb 18th, 2021, 11:52 am
Republicans in North Dakota’s state legislature are targeting the civil liability protections afforded to social media companies like Twitter and Facebook with a new bill that would make it illegal to “censor” users. Unfortunately for those hoping the measure would be a crippling legal salvo in the war on “cancel culture,” attorneys who have reviewed the measure say it’s an unconstitutional and self-contradictory mess that’s impossible to enforce.
The bill, titled “an Act to permit civil actions against social media sites for censoring speech,” is the state’s attempt to circumvent the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, the widely misunderstood law that protects internet companies from being held liable for content created by third-parties that is hosted on their websites. The federal law has drawn the ire of some Republicans who characterize it as a tool which allows internet companies and websites to ce