Rumble and Law Professor Sue New York Attorney General to Block Online Hate Speech Law, Calling It a First Amendment ‘Double Whammy’ | Law & Crime

Two days before New York’s online hate speech law is supposed to take effect, the video-sharing website Rumble and a law professor filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) asking a judge to call it vague and unconstitutional.

Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a non-profit group better known by its acronym FIRE, filed the 46-page complaint on behalf of three plaintiffs: Rumble, the crowd funding site Locals, and Eugene Volokh, the First Amendment scholar behind the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy.

“New York politicians are slapping a speech-police badge on my chest because I run a blog,” Volokh wrote in a statement. “I started the blog to share interesting and important legal stories, not to police readers’ speech at the government’s behest.”

Passed in the wake of a white supremacist’s mass shooting of Black shoppers at a grocery story in Buffalo, New York, the law forces social media networks to publish a policy explaining how they will clamp down on speech perceived to “vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or class of persons” based on race, color, religion, or other protected categories. FIRE notes that those platforms will be required to create a mechanism to report such speech — and must respond to those complaints.

In their complaint, Volokh’s lawyers say that the law “hangs like the Sword of Damocles over a broad swath of online services.”

“In something of a First Amendment ‘double whammy,’ the Online Hate Speech Law burdens the publication of disfavored but protected speech through unconstitutionally compelled speech — forcing online services to single out ‘hate speech’ with a dedicated policy, a mandatory report & response mechanism, and obligatory direct replies to each report,” the professor’s lawyer Darapana M. Sheth writes in the complaint. “If a service refuses, the law threatens New York Attorney General investigations, subpoenas, and daily fines of $1,000 per violation.”

Earlier this week, Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron pleaded guilty to all 25 state charges leveled against him for his terrorist attack, which he live-streamed via a GoPro that he wore to the mass slaughter. He disseminated a racist rant before his shooting spree that articulated his motives, like other white supremacists before him in Christchurch, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

The Empire State law had been intended, in part, to keep racially motivated terrorists from having spaces online to spread their ideologies and stop copycat attacks.

But Volokh says that the New York law goes too far, using such broad language that any attorney general can put bloggers at risk of financial ruin, if commenters share opinions that are disfavored by the state.

Under his interpretation of the statute, the professor says that regulators can go after an atheist perceived to have “vilified” organized religion — or comedian John Oliver for his recent segment on HBO’s Last Week Tonight sending up the British monarchy, which could be construed as a “humiliation” of the U.K.

“There can be no reasonable doubt New York will enforce the Online Hate Speech Law to strong-arm online services into censoring protected speech,” the complaint states. “The Attorney General’s intentions, in fact, could not be clearer; as recited, for example, in an October press release, the Attorney General declared that ‘[o]nline platforms should be held accountable for allowing hateful and dangerous content to spread on their platforms’ because an alleged ‘lack of oversight, transparency, and accountability of these platforms allows hateful and extremist views to proliferate online.’”

Rumble, Locals and Volokh want a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional on its face as “vague” and “overbroad.” They also seek to a declaration that it runs afoul of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a statute that has come under fire by politicians across the political spectrum. . . .

Rumble and Law Professor Sue New York Attorney General to Block Online Hate Speech Law, Calling It a First Amendment ‘Double Whammy’ | Law & Crime

Skip The Scoop | Seek Understanding

Do you all remember these famous people who died of #vaccins suddenly? | Video: 2 Minutes 26 Seconds

Show Me

Wow … great explanation about the Muslim world vs the West. | Video: 1 Minute 23 Seconds

Show Me

The Havoc Weak Men Create | Joe Biden and The Woke

Show Me

Sounds Like A Lot Of People Have Had Enough | “F&ck You” Joe Biden | Video: 2 Minutes 34 Seconds

Show Me

Juanita Broderick Maintains She Was Raped By Bill Clinton | Now Hilary Clinton Wants To Rape Us All

Show Me

The Greatest Thing To Come Out Of The Black Lives Movement | End Wokeness | Video: 22 Seconds

Show Me

Ryan Carson, A New York City Activist Who Advocated For The Very Policies That Make The City Unsafe, Was Murdered | 1 Minute 3 Seconds

Show Me

Meet Patrick Douglas Scruggs | Department Of Justice Prosecutor Who Persecuted Peaceful January 6th Defendants | Accused Of Continuing To Terrorize Americans As He Stabbed Fellow Motorists

Show Me

Retiring Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley Is Hitting The Media Circuit As He Retires | Victor David Hansen

Show Me

More Debilitating Side Effects after Teens Get Government-Backed HPV Vaccine | Judicial Watch

Show Me

Musk Says COVID Shot ‘Almost Sent Me to Hospital,’ Says He’d Go to Prison Before Firing Workers for Refusing Jab | Epoch Times | Video: 1 Minute 33 Seconds

Show Me

Joe Rogan Is Voting For Trump | Video: 3 Minutes 11 Seconds

Show Me

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick On Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Impeachment Trial

Show Me

Despite Biden’s Claim, Europeans WEREN’T Trying To Oust Ukraine Prosecutor Targeting Hunter’s Firm | Miranda Devine | New York Post

Show Me

The Texas Heist | Do Democrats Run The Texas House? | Video: 37 Minutes 50 Seconds

Show Me

Mask Mandates | Sterility Not The Strong Point | James Woods and Dr. David Cartland | Video: 28 Seconds

Show Me

So You Think The Communists Have Not Affected Our Education? | Think Again | American Educators Demonstrating Their Stupidity And Cult Like Behavior | Video: 3 Minutes 20 Seconds

Show Me

The Corrupt National Archives and Records Administration acknowledged possessing up to 5,400 emails connected to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s pseudonym accounts that he used to forward government information and discuss business with his son, Hunter Biden, and others | Just The News

Show Me

Global Warming Is A Hoax | Ian Pilmer, Geologist, Professor Emeritus At The University Of Melbourne | Video: 2 Minutes 8 Seconds

Show Me

President Donald Trump Interview | Debate Night | Tucker Carlson | Video: 46 Minutes 12 Seconds

Show Me

Hunter Biden’s Business Partner | Devon Archer Interview Part 2 | Tucker Carlson | Video: 1 Hour 3 Minutes 45 Seconds

Show Me

Nothing Can Add Clarity To Our World Like Satire On The Point | Video: 32 Seconds

Show Me

What In The World?! | “F%CK Joe Biden!” | Video: 22 Seconds

Show Me

100% Percent American | 100% Badass | Video: 1 Minute 15 Seconds

Show Me

Want To Know Why The Administrative State Hates Donald Trump? It’s Because They Hate Us | Every Color and Creed Greet and Cheer Donald Trump | Video: 1 Minute 11 Seconds

Show Me

Hunter Biden’s Business Partner | Devon Archer Interview Part 1 | Tucker Carlson | Video: 11 Minutes 43 Seconds

Show Me

Anthony Fauci Lied To Congress, A Felony, And He Should Be Prosecuted | Rand Paul | Video: 1 Minute 24 Seconds

Show Me

Indoctornation: See How The Administrative State Uses Controlled Media To Indoctrinate The Public | Video: 1 Hour 16 Minutes 20 Seconds

Show Me

See How Legislative Lawfare Has Dramatically Changed Our Farmlands Into The Playground Of The Chinese Communist Party And Jeffery Epstein’s Cohort, Bill Gates | Robert Kennedy, Jr | Video: 3 Minutes 15 Seconds

Show Me

Plandemic: The AIDS and COVID-19 Q&A Interview With Renowned Research Scientist Dr. Judy Mikovits | Video: 22 Minutes 48 Seconds

Show Me

Save The Rhinos | This World Is Full of Fascinating Life

Show Me

The DOJ And Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Sordid History Of Weaponizing The Espionage Act | The Federalist

Show Me

There Is A Reason The Biden Regime Under Publicly Humiliated Merrick Garland Appointed Disgraced Prosecutor Jack Smith | Video: 8 Minutes 26 Seconds

Show Me

White Rhinos | Just One Of The Beautiful Animals On This Planet | Robert Irwin

Show Me

Coincidence Theorist Is The Only Logical Position. . . | Hollywood Stars Have A LOT Of Trans Kids | Video: 5 Minutes 40 Seconds

Show Me

The Great Awakening | There Is Hope For Humanity | Video: 1 Hour 41 Minutes 21 Seconds

Show Me

Hum. . . . The Joe Biden Crime Family | Video: 46 Seconds

Show Me

Journalist Emma Jo-Harris Testifies On The Now-Acknowledged, Even By The New York Times, Biden Crime Family And That The “Big Guy” Is In Fact Joe Biden | The FBI, NSA, and CIA Conspired To Cover It Up To Rig The 2020 Election Against The American Voter | Video: 5 Minutes 53 Seconds

Show Me

Robert Kennedy, Jr. Puts Democrat Congress Members Trying To Censor Him In Their Place

Show Me

Was Tucker Carlson Fired By Fox At The Behest of Dominion Voting Machines? | If So, It Probably Has To Do With Tucker’s Changing View On Election 2020: There Is Hard Evidence It Was Stolen From The American People | Video: 6 Minutes 48 Seconds

Show Me