The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.
The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.
Setting aside constitutional issues, think about how insane and delusional you have to be to decide that the fact that a significant number of people are protesting your policies means that protesting needs to be
prohibitedpunished.Bill Text: https://www.senate.mo.gov/24info/pdf-bill/intro/SB1061.pdf
It doesn’t prohibit protesting, it basically says that if you engage in “economic boycott” (a term which about a third of the bill is spent defining) then the State of Missouri cannot use you as a vendor, and any contracts with them are null and void.
So less prohibiting protesting and more not buying stuff from protesters. Probably still a 1A violation, though from an odd enough angle I’m not sure.
Wonder how that would work out given the number of firearms vendors that actively boycott liberal things like budlight. Police departments are going to be all outta ammo.
Well, according to the Citizens United decision, corporations are people and money is speech, so a company deciding with who they’re going to spend money is protected speech.
Sounds like the anti-BDS laws. Somehow that’s a thing, and I’m not sure how that’s even allowed.
Also, I was amused that BDS also stands for “Biden Derangement Syndrome”. In the years before Denver Post closed their comments, they ramped their censorship way up and for some reason “BDS” would trigger their nanny-filter. I’m supposing even the mention of the boycott of Israel was bridge too far for the nannies at Denver Post.
“Well, it brings the subject into view and we hate hearing about it (cry harder, libs!) so we’ll just stop people from doing the thing that brings it into view and annoys us.” - conservative snowflakes, probably