Former Biden adviser's op-ed lambasted for claim that the 'First Amendment is out of control'
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A New York Times guest essay, "The First Amendment Is Out Of Control," was mocked on social media on Tuesday by conservatives and others.
The guest essay focused on the Supreme Court's decision to send back to lower courts challenges to Florida and Texas laws that restrict how large social media companies moderate user content. Conservatives, among others, on social media questioned the headline and mocked the piece. Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.
"The judiciary needs to realize that the First Amendment is spinning out of control. It is beginning to threaten many of the essential jobs of the state, such as protecting national security and the safety and privacy of its citizens," Wu wrote. "Sometime in this century the judiciary lost the plot. Judges have transmuted a constitutional provision meant to protect unpopular opinion into an all-purpose tool of legislative nullification that now mostly protects corporate interests. Nearly any law that has to do with the movement of information can be attacked in the name of the First Amendment."