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Supreme Court takes two, non-2A, gun law cases
Greer v. US, docket. Issue: Whether, when applying plain-error review based on an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, Rehaif v. United States [which held that, in a felon in possession case, the government must prove the defendant knew he'd been convicted of a felony}, a circuit court of appeals may review matters outside the trial record to determine whether the error affected a defendant's substantial rights or impacted the fairness, integrity or public reputation of the trial.
US v. Gary, docket. Issue: Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, is automatically entitled to plain-error relief if the district court did not advise him that one element of that offense is knowledge of his status as a felon, regardless of whether he can show that the district court's error affected the outcome of the proceedings.
These are the results from Friday's Conference, which must have been lively. Other cases then considered, with no results yet announced, include an abortion case, a church's challenge to Covid closures that it argues favor other gatherings over religious services, two challenges to mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, the death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber, and a case seeking to determine whether President Trump can ban people from his Twitter account (which may now be moot). Most conferences are not so lively!
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Apparently AR15.com announced on Twitter that GoDaddy kicked them off. I stopped gracing Twitter with my presence long ago, so I just now saw some press articles about it.
The larger issue here is that even if these [completely legal] websites and websites like them move to more accommodating web hosts, large internet providers, search engines, and so on can still make them difficult to access.
For example, Charter or AT&T could begin blocking or limiting access to such sites. In many places, people only have one broadband internet provider -- so their other options are, well, none. Or, at the upstream level, the internet provider or data center for the hosting company can threaten to pull the plug.
"PixelNacht" is precious! That should be made the rallying cry for the 1A.
Is "PixelNacht" a violation of the 1A? Apparently not, but perhaps so. It's not if government and "the press" are independent actors. But what if "the press" is an agent of the government; or, government were the agent of "the press". Or, the two were acting in collusion. Can you act in collusion, or through an agent, to evade the law? Generally, no. If a case can be sustained that "the press" is acting in collusion with the Federal government then that would be a 1A violation.
"Charter or AT&T could begin blocking or limiting access to such sites." A VPN would prevent your ISP from blocking you. The ISPs could prevent you from using a VPN but VPNs are now so popular that that would be difficult.
I'm beginning to wonder whether the Masters of the Universe might face so much backlash over PixelNacht that the sleepy Silent Majority will wake-up. They might be joined by the "Woke" who will "Lexit" - leave the Left.
Use a VPN.
It appears the internet hosts may be taking the opportunity to drive gun forums off the web as well as Parler. AR15.com brings up the main page, but can't seem to log in and some are saying the host, GoDaddy, has shut them down. AR15-backup.com seems to be working for now, appears to be hosted with different host, but that might be Amazon web services, which doesn't bode well.
TexasCHLforum.com has been down since before Christmas, and I thought it was because it was having problems with a software upgrade, but it's been over two weeks now and it still hasn't come up. Makes me wonder.
Another forum I am on is changing its name, the forum owner hints its because the original name is going on someone's blacklist.
Anyway, I don't know who your site is hosted with, but may want to take measures to try to find a friendlier host (whoever that might be) to back up your site on.
"PixelNacht" may be underway.