Yes, It’s David French Again

Joseph Eagar
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The latest in the annals of “Why Sohrab Ahmari Was Right About David French”:

I’m sure we are all tired of hearing about David French.  But this is ridiculous.  This isn’t a legal issue (as French knows full well).  It isn’t just about Twitter either; Facebook also suppressed the story.  Nor was the government totally uninvolved; Congressional Democrats applied pressure behind the scenes.  But this idea that there is something wrong about making a political issue out of an entire sector of industry conspiring to secretly manipulate an election.  That is obscene.  French should be ashamed of himself.

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  1. BDB
    BDB
    @BDB

    Joseph Eagar: French should be ashamed of himself.

    Lot of that going around.  Not holding my bereath.

    David French is just another demented grifter.  I don’t care what he says or does.

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  2. Jim McConnell
    Jim McConnell
    @JimMcConnell

    BDB (View Comment):

    Joseph Eagar: French should be ashamed of himself.

    Lot of that going around. Not holding my bereath.

    David French is just another demented grifter. I don’t care what he says or does.

    TDS is just inexplicable in so many instances. I’m not a Trump fan (his ethics and his personality), but he has surely sent a lot of otherwise sensible people completely around the bend.

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  3. BDB
    BDB
    @BDB

    Jim McConnell (View Comment):

    BDB (View Comment):

    Joseph Eagar: French should be ashamed of himself.

    Lot of that going around. Not holding my bereath.

    David French is just another demented grifter. I don’t care what he says or does.

    TDS is just inexplicable in so many instances. I’m not a Trump fan (his ethics and his personality), but he has surely sent a lot of otherwise sensible people completely around the bend.

    Just putting the inside on the outside for all to see.  Like forcing a vote instead of letting the slimebags ride on assumptions of good faith.

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  4. James Lileks
    James Lileks
    @jameslileks

    Well, if it’s not a government scandal, then never mind, because the real problem is what Tucker Carlson is saying about it. 

    Okay.

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  5. D.A. Venters
    D.A. Venters
    @DAVenters

    First Amendment law is one of French’s bailiwicks, I think, and, as is common for experts in any field, when he sees people getting it wrong, the urge to push back is nearly irresistible.  It’s that anxiety that people are going to get the wrong impression of what the 1st Amendment is and does that prompts him to focus on that – even if there is, of course, non-1st Amendment reasons to be concerned about Twitter’s behavior.

    Those tweets are excerpts from a longer article in the Atlantic, which ends like this:

    But if the government were involved, the story would change dramatically. As powerful as Twitter is, it cannot match the reach and strength of the federal government, and if the government does coerce a private company into doing its bidding, then the First Amendment is implicated. But finding coercion is key. The government can ask private corporations to take action without implicating the First Amendment. In fact, Taibbi last night said that Twitter “received” and “honored” deletion requests from the Trump White House.

    But there’s no evidence of any such coercion (at least so far) in the Hunter Biden story, and unless and until there is, the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop is the story of private individuals making decisions they were entitled to make. It is not the story of a government run amok.

    The obsession with French on this site is something to behold, by the way.  I don’t get it. 

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