California Lawmaker Melendez Takes Aim at ‘Cancel Culture’
As the national conversation about “cancel culture” continues to heat up, one Southern California lawmaker is tackling the issue through policy.
State Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) said her constituents have told her they experience “cancel culture” shaming for their political affiliations. They worry they’ll be discriminated against in various ways for their affiliations.
In response, Melendez recently introduced anti-discrimination measures that seek to add “political affiliation” as a protected class under state law. If passed, the legislation will protect California residents from discrimination when seeking housing or employment.
“I hear about it all the time from constituents, and it’s very worrisome,” Melendez told The Epoch Times. “And I don’t know what to tell them, because, in their minds, they think that the law protects them but when we looked further into it, it really d
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Legal scholar Jonathan Turley who appeared at a hearing held by the House Congressional Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. (Screenshot: Lucas Ropek/House Committee on Energy and Commerce)
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As disinformation and misinformation have increasingly been blamed for rising political extremism and polarisation in the U.S., lawmakers have naturally sought to cobble together some sort of legislative response. The problem is that U.S. Congress is, themselves, so polarised that they can’t seem to agree on how to do that.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in a speech on the House floor on Wednesday warned that Democrats are trying to censor what Americans can read and watch, citing the efforts of two congressmen who sent letters to cable companies to pressure them to drop conservative TV networks.
Conservative Power Couple Wage Legal War on Stolen-Election Myth Bloomberg 2/26/2021 Erik Larson
(Bloomberg) A pair of self-described conservative lawyers are leading the fight to shut down the U.S. election conspiracy theory, pitting themselves against some of the loudest voices on the right.
Tom Clare and Libby Locke, a married couple who run their own boutique firm, represent Dominion Voting Systems Inc. in lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell seeking a total of $3.9 billion for falsely claiming its voting machines were used to steal the 2020 election. Their battle is at the heart of an effort to stop a continuing stream of disinformation from Donald Trump’s supporters and they haven’t ruled out suing Trump himself.
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On Tuesday evening, at the start of his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson shared the results of an investigation that he and his staff had conducted into a well-known agent of American disinformation. “We spent all day trying to locate the famous QAnon,” Carlson said, “which, in the end, we learned is
not even a website. If it’s out there, we could not find it.” They kept looking, though, checking Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter feed and “the intel community,” before coming to the obvious conclusion: “Cable news” and “politicians talking on TV,” Carlson said, must be responsible for the lies running rampant in America. “Maybe