{"id":9444,"date":"2022-12-03T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2022-12-03T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:59:57","slug":"senator-dick-durbin-doesnt-understand-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9444","title":{"rendered":"Senator Dick Durbin Doesn&#8217;t Understand the First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;As much as Durbin may dislike hateful speech or speech that spreads conspiracy theories, they are both generally protected by the First Amendment.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Durbin had plenty of reason to be troubled by these developments\u2014the mass-tweeting of hateful language is concerning, and so too is such a powerful figure seemingly fooled by an online hoax\u2014he was mistaken when asserting that Musk&#8217;s tweet was somehow not covered &#8220;by free speech.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JQ52WYgwaW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/03\/senator-dick-durbin-doesnt-understand-the-first-amendment\/\">Senator Dick Durbin Doesn&#8217;t Understand the First Amendment<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Senator Dick Durbin Doesn&#039;t Understand the First Amendment&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/03\/senator-dick-durbin-doesnt-understand-the-first-amendment\/embed\/#?secret=c7XBfBy1LL#?secret=JQ52WYgwaW\" data-secret=\"JQ52WYgwaW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As much as Durbin may dislike hateful speech or speech that spreads conspiracy theories, they are both generally protected by the First Amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Durbin had plenty of reason to be troubled by these developments\u2014the mass-tweeting of hateful language is concerning, and so too is such a powerful figure seemingly fooled by an online hoax\u2014he was mistaken when asserting that Musk&#8217;s tweet was somehow not covered &#8220;by free speech.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1736,875,848],"class_list":["post-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}