#Bestof2021: 2/2 The Supreme Court, Facebook, and the White House.@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/trump-v-big-tech
1922 SCOTUS WHITE HOUSE
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| 0:37.8 | Okay, four, three, two. |
| 0:40.8 | This is CBSi in the world. I'm John Batchett with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution discussing the Supreme Court, the Constitution, speech, and right now the incidents of the White House, the Biden administration, and its executive |
| 0:56.4 | branches, working in concert with social media platforms about information concerning right now COVID-19. |
| 1:06.2 | The question here, I believe, proceeds from Burton v Wilmington Parking Authority, 1961, which Richard introduces me to, so what I understand it is, |
| 1:18.0 | quite reprehensiblely, a restaurant owner, barred a man because of his race, a cafe owner, but the |
| 1:26.2 | cafe was occupied on city-run property, a parking lot. The Supreme Court ruled |
| 1:31.7 | that because of that link to the federal government, the private |
| 1:36.5 | enterprise was held to the same account as a government enterprise in banning somebody |
| 1:42.2 | or depriving him of his rights. |
| 1:45.0 | In this case, it wasn't free speech, it was the right to be served. |
| 1:50.0 | However, Richard, this suggests that the government in working in league with the |
| 1:56.3 | Facebook or other social media platforms to say what is and what is not |
| 2:00.8 | allowed about the origins of the virus can be held I'm an |
| 2:06.2 | amateur Richard can be held to the same standard is that a way to understand it |
| 2:10.1 | yes well you're talking about a case called Burton against the Wilmington, 1961, and it was something |
| 2:16.6 | of a shocker when it came down. |
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