{"id":88274,"date":"2024-09-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88274"},"modified":"2024-09-04T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:26:30","slug":"komissar-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88274","title":{"rendered":"Komissar Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past week, Brazil&#8217;s &#8220;supreme court&#8221; ordered a shutdown of &#8220;X&#8221; (formerly Twitter) after Elon Musk declined to participate in a sham court proceeding.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The justice said the platform will stay suspended until it complies with his orders, and also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to access it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>OK &#8211; so you say &#8220;banana repubics gonna banana republic&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 They got themselves a socialist PM, so it&#8217;s to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, indeed; banana republics gonna banana republic:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">obrigado Brasil!<\/p>&mdash; Keith Ellison (@keithellison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithellison\/status\/1830720700019028109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Thanks, Brazil&#8221;. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a just world, this would be a disqualifier for further service as an &#8220;Attorney General&#8221;, as actual lawyer and state rep Harry Niska points out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Supporting a foreign country\u2019s authoritarian crackdown on speech should be a scandal, especially among the supposed free-speech-supporting press. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bv0p39t5Iz\">https:\/\/t.co\/bv0p39t5Iz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Harry Niska (@HarryNiska) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarryNiska\/status\/1831131619370975678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Niska&#8217;s not new at this &#8211; he knows most Twin Cities media only supports <em>their <\/em>free speech. But rules are rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of which &#8211; Ellison is certainly trashing the spirit of Minnesota law, if not the actual letter::<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The MN state constitution: &quot;The liberty of the press shall forever remain inviolate, and all persons may freely speak, write and publish their sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of such right.&quot;<br><br>Ellison swore an oath to this. Were his fingers crossed? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nzNb5H3GUb\">https:\/\/t.co\/nzNb5H3GUb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1830961824768106564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tack this onto Governor Klink&#8217;s clear ambivalence about free speech, and the Twin Cities news media&#8217;s trite juvenility about doing its putative duty to democracy&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Forget all the other peak Minnesota moments. This right here, this is peak Minnesota.\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eijhAcdKHE\">https:\/\/t.co\/eijhAcdKHE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Patricia Lopez (@patricialopez_4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patricialopez_4\/status\/1828519152958743019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and it&#8217;s hard to know which is the bigger banana republic, Brazil or Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, Brazil&#8217;s &#8220;supreme court&#8221; ordered a shutdown of &#8220;X&#8221; (formerly Twitter) after Elon Musk declined to participate in a sham court proceeding.\u00a0 The justice said the platform will stay suspended until it complies with his orders, and also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,320],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-88274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-mndfl","tag-ellison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88275,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88274\/revisions\/88275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}