Meme Win

Free speech wins:

Mackey was convicted in 2023 of election interference in the 2016 election because he shared a satirical meme to his nearly 60,000 followers, saying “Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to …” with a fake number. It is important to emphasize that the Biden DOJ did not have any evidence that anyone actually took Mackey’s meme seriously and tried to vote from home. So the entire case was based on the unproven argument that someone, somewhere, could just possibly have misunderstood a funny meme and tried to vote from home instead of at a polling place, which supposedly made Mackey a dangerous criminal. Since his conviction left him facing up to 10 years in prison, it’s no wonder Mackey is so relieved at the new decision. But what is incredibly disturbing is that anyone in America was convicted of a crime and faced a decade of jail time over a satirical post on a social media platform (Twitter). The previous decision attacked the First Amendment and set an extremely dangerous precedent. Fortunately, God is good, as Mackey wrote, and justice has finally prevailed.

Don't fear the memes...