Amid a conservative firestorm over online speech, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Tuesday rejected the notion that the government should crack down on social media posts following conservative organizer Charlie Kirk’s assassination. “I think you can draw a pretty clear line, and the Supreme Court has done this for decades, that our First Amendment, our free speech tradition, protects almost all speech,” Carr told POLITICO’s Alex Burns on stage at the POLITICO AI & Tech Summit.

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      “Radical Leftist Obama Appointed Communist Definitely Not A Guy I Chose Brendon “Brokedown” Carr will hereby be removed from office and charged with leftist terrorism and sued by the DOJ and my personal lawyer Pam Bondi! I’m proud to announce his replacement Mr.Yesbot powered by Grok!”

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    “I think you can draw a pretty clear line, and the Supreme Court has done this for decades, …

    Great. He just cursed us with a new supreme court shadow docket decision.

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    But, but… I thought the first amendment only existed as a spacer before the second amendment.