This isn’t California Democrats’ first rodeo – remember their 2018 attempt to create a ‘Fake News Advisory Council’
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California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the Legislature claim they want to regulate social media over hate speech. Senate Bill 771 by Sen. Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) claims this is about “Personal rights: liability: social media platforms.”
SB 771 is an “anti free speech” bill, comes entirely from California Democrats, and is designed to silence opposing opinions. The bill is not about moderating hate speech; it’s about banning speech Democrats hate.
This isn’t California Democrats’ first rodeo. In 2018, Democrat California lawmakers pushed legislation to create jack-boot agents of government through a “Fake News Advisory Council” – an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” for the news they don’t like, I reported. “After having my Capitol Press Credential revoked in 2015 and only reissued after an Open Records Act request of 10-years of press credential applications, and viable threats of a First Amendment lawsuit, it appears Democrats in the California Legislature still don’t believe in making no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
That obviously stands today, 10 years later.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!
In April 2022, the Biden administration announced it had created the Disinformation Governance Board – its own Ministry of Truth – a part of the Department of Homeland Security.
Americans from all walks of life were horrified. Fortunately for the potential enemies of the state, the board’s executive director and disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz had already beclowned herself in videos that went viral, demonstrating her stunning bias and partisanship. Within three weeks the Biden Disinformation Governance Board was shut down, and many Americans heaved a sigh of relief.
But not California Democrats.
The Assembly Floor Analysis lays open the crux of Democrat’s SB 771:
“In 2022, after Elon Musk took over X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, he rolled back its content moderation policies (that means they stopped shadow banning Conservatives). Rates of hate speech on the platform – including posts containing homophobic, transphobic, and racist slurs – spiked by about 50% shortly thereafter.1 In 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg followed suit. Citing the reelection of Donald J. Trump, he announced Facebook, Instagram, and Threads would ″remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.″ 2Meta platform users soon thereafter reported a similar spike in harmful content.”
Assembly Democrats cite UC Berkeley News and the Chicago Sun times to justify their claims of hate speech:
1 UC Berkeley News, Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X (Feb. 13, 2025), https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/study-finds-persistent-spike-in-hate-speech-on-x/.
2 Barbara Ortutay, ″Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites ‘recent elections’ as a catalyst″ Chicago Sun-Times (Jan. 9, 2025) https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/01/09/meta-rolls-back-hate-speech-rules-zuckerberg-election-trump-x-twitter-musk-immigration-gender.
Under SB 771, people will be fined if the State Censors determine that their social media posts constitute “Violence, intimidation, or coercion… based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or other protected characteristics.”
This feels suspiciously like what is taking place in the United Kingdom right now – people getting arrested and jailed for social media posts deemed by some government flak “intimidating,” “offensive” or “racially inappropriate.”
Is the state of California attempting to censor the opinions of Americans on social media? Did Nina Jankowicz move to California?
According to the California Chamber of Commerce, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and TechNet, which oppose SB 771:
“It is well established that the companies covered by this legislation have constitutional rights related to content moderation, including the right to curate, prioritize, and remove content in accordance with their terms of service. By exposing these companies to civil liability for content they do not remove, SB 771 creates a chilling effect on their editorial discretion. The significant, prescribed civil penalties – potentially amounting into the billions for each violation – would lead platforms to over-remove lawful content to mitigate legal exposure. Therefore, if this law passes, it will almost certainly be struck down in court (see NetChoice v Paxton) because it imposes liability on social media platforms for whether certain types of third-party content are shown to users, as well as the expressive choices social media platforms make in designing the user experience. This violates the First Amendment rights of users and social media platforms.
Moreover, the proposed liability framework likely conflicts with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides strong federal protections for platforms against civil liability for third-party content and for good-faith content moderation. Courts (see Twitter,inc v. Taamneh, 598 U.S.__ (2023)) have consistently upheld Section 230 as preempting state-level attempts to impose liability for content hosting or moderation decisions.”
SB 771 is an “anti free speech” bill, comes entirely from California Democrats, and is designed to silence opposing opinions…..”””””””””””””””””
director and disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz “”””””””” demonstrating her stunning bias and partisanship. Within three weeks the Biden Disinformation Governance Board was shut down,
The question becomes one of where do you stand????? When does this dictatorship of Il Duche aka Slick end. I have friends on both sides and those of the Radical Socialist Party (aka Dem) find themselves up against the proverbial wall. They find themselves in a position where the Hollywood idiots and the radical black caucus have out maneuvered them.
All of a sudden the Blue Dogs are outnumbered with radical socialist and have watched a lie called the Biden Presidency that was overtaken by “Central Committee of far left radicals.” Combined with Obama who was making apologies for American Exceptionalism. Claimed as President and even now, Radical Revolutionaries who killed Americans and professed the violent overthrow of the nation that they are friends. (What does that say about a woman who is married to a male of that stature?)
Let’s go back to Il Duche the current radical un-appolgetic dictator of the one party rule of California. Newsom is backed by a Radical Socialist Party that hides as compassionate while they have yet to demand return of killers from Cuba, Russia, and traitors to this nation.
We’ll crush the environment and crate a deficit ridden State (in the $billions). After bullying and threatening businesses demand by legislation that they remain in Calif.. Why? So the Radical Socialist Party can BLEED the Capitalist white to prove they as dictators can rule not free people but minions of destructive dictatorship.
You voted for them. You are watching the destruction of this state. When regardless of your “feelings” recognize truth?