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Fresh off a New York judge illegally declaring that 1/10th of the Bill o
Rights has been repealed in her courtroom, the governor of New York ha
announced she'll be policing 1st Amendment protected speech if she doesn'
like what you're saying.

New York Announces it Will Take Citizen Surveillance and Censorship to th
Next Level

Like the plot to a dystopian movie, New York will now monitor social medi
writings, collect data, and use law enforcement to crack down on an
expression it deems to be hate speech.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced on Monday that the state will ramp u
surveillance efforts of social media accounts and that law enforcement wil
take proactive measures, including contacting people on suspicion of usin
"hate speech".

Hochul cited the rise in anti-Semitic activity in New York and especially Ne
York City, where the world's largest population of Jews outside of Israe
resides. Hochul also mentioned alleged "Islamophobic" incidents, which sh
claimed were increasing and going under-reported.

The governor said she would also be increasing police presence, which sh
stated has been focused on protecting potential targets including "synagogue
and yeshivas and mosques and any other place that could be susceptible to hat
crimes or violence".

As part of that, Hochul explained, "...we're very focused on the data we'r
collecting from surveillance efforts-- what's being said on social medi
platforms. And we have launched an effort to be able to counter some of th
negativity and reach out to people when we see hate speech being spoken abou
on online platforms. Our media analysis, our social media analysis unit, ha
ramped up its monitoring of sites to catch incitement to violence; direc
threats to others, and all this is in response to our desire, our stron
commitment, to ensure that not only do New Yorkers be safe, but they also fee
safe because personal security is about everything for them."

[What the hell is the gobbledygook in that last sentence? "Not only do Ne
Yorkers be safe"? "They also feel safe because personal security is abou
everything for them"? Who's writing this crap? Cardi B?]

Last month, Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams demanded that socia
media platforms monitor speech and shut down "incitements to violence", wit
Adams insisting, "These guys are experts. If they don't want to do their jo
of policing themselves, I really believe it's time for the federal governmen
to step in."

The calls come as Europe ramps up censorship of alleged hate speech, includin
pressuring X owner Elon Musk to censor the posts of online users. Man
European nations now have laws that have made the expression of religiou
beliefs to be viewed as banned speech. This week Finnish Member of Parliamen
(MP) Päivi Räsänen and a Lutheran bishop were acquitted after four years o
trials and investigations simply for sharing the biblical view on marriage an
sexuality. And in the U.K., an Army veteran will soon be tried for silentl
praying for his deceased son outside of an abortion clinic.

[But notice these European countries  never arrest the Muslims who openly cal
for the deaths of Jews and Americans.]

In the U.S., politicians have demanded Internet censorship and have eve
engaged in it themselves. For example, the Supreme Court will soon hea
Missouri v. Biden, a case in which the federal government coerced social medi
platforms to censor content it disagreed with-- even if the content was true.

Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washingto
University and free speech advocate who has written extensively on the issue
of censorship and limitations on speech, has cautioned the U.S. agains
adopting European censorship laws that allow governments to stop people fro
saying things that governments oppose. Despite what many think, "hate speech"
which is subjective, is protected both by the Constitution and by Suprem
Court precedent.

He wrote:

"There have been calls to ban hate speech for years. Even former journalis
and Obama State Department official Richard Stengel has insisted that whil
"the 1st Amendment protects 'the thought that we hate'... it should not
protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another.
In an age when everyone has a megaphone, that seems like a design flaw."

Actually, it was not a design flaw but the very essence of the Framers' plan
for a free society.

The 1st Amendment does not distinguish between types of speech, clearly
stating: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the government for a redress of grievances.'"

He cited Brandenburg v. Ohio, a 1969 case involving "violent speech", wherein
the Supreme Court struck down an Ohio law prohibiting public speech that was
deemed as promoting illegal conduct, specifically ruling for the right of the
Ku Klux Klan to speak out, even though it is a hateful organization."

That ruling led to National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie in
1977, where the Court unanimously ruled that the city government could not
constitutionally deny a permit for the American Nazi Party to hold a march in
the city streets, even in a city populated heavily by Holocaust survivors. 

Turley also noted that in the 2011 case of RAV v. City of St. Paul, the Court
struck down a ban on any symbol that 'arouses anger, alarm or resentment in
others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender, and in Snyder
v. Phelps, also in 2011, the Court said that "the hateful protests of Westboro
Baptist Church were protected".


https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2023/11/new-york-announces-it-will-take-citizen-surveillance-and-censorship-to-the-next-level/?twclid=2-6oshw3g6bxsmwqt160vrgne5i