SCOTUS Hears BIG First Amendment Case - In The Tank #441

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 441 of the In The Tank Podcast. For many years now, we have heard about big tech censorship and the role government may have played. Thanks to investigations like "The Twitter Files," we have gotten some insight into the coercive pressure put upon social media platforms to remove certain content. Well now, the Supreme Court is hearing a case on this very matter. At what point is the government overstepping the protections of the First Amendment in an effort to curb "misinformation?" Can we count on the Supreme Court to safeguard free speech? Just how important will the results of this case be?OPENING CHIT CHAT - "BLOODBATH"NYT - Trump Defends His Warning of a ‘Blood Bath for the Country’https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/us/politics/trump-blood-bath-auto-industry.html PRIMARY TOPIC - GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP CASE REACHES THE SUPREME COURTWSJ - Government’s ‘Thinly Veiled’ Social-Media Censorshiphttps://www.wsj.com/articles/murthy-v-missouri-supreme-court-government-censorship-white-house-jen-psaki-9776eeb3The Federalist - Justice Jackson’s Comment About Free Speech ‘Hamstringing’ The Government Wasn’t Her Worsthttps://thefederalist.com/2024/03/20/justice-jacksons-comment-about-free-speech-hamstringing-the-government-wasnt-her-worst/NYP - Will federal censorship be the pandemic’s biggest legacy?https://nypost.com/2024/03/19/opinion/will-federal-censorship-be-the-pandemics-biggest-legacy/PowerLine Blog - THE RIGHT TO SHOUT “BS” DURING A PANDEMIChttps://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/the-right-to-shout-bs-during-a-pandemic.phpSECONDARY TOPIC - UN'S RED ALERT... AGAINWashington Post - Biden imposes strongest-ever climate change rules for carshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/20/biden-car-emissions-rules/Yahoo Finance - UN sounds 'Red Alert' as world smashes heat records in 2023https://finance.yahoo.com/news/un-sounds-red-alert-world-130000043.html