Georgia Republicans Try To Punish Delta For CEO's Statement About Voting Rights Law

Georgia Republicans Try To Punish Delta For CEO's Statement About Voting Rights Law

3 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210401/17191346538/georgia-republicans-try-to-punish-delta-ceos-statement-about-voting-rights-law.shtml

Punishing people or companies for their speech is never something any politician should ever be engaged in. It's why we called out Elizabeth Warren recently. And now we'll call out Republican legislators in Georgia, who tried (but failed) to punish Delta in direct response to its CEO's comments. The details honestly don't matter here, because all that matters is "politicians looking to punish speech" but we'll give the basic background.

As you may have heard in the news, a week ago, Georgia passed a big new voting bill that has been quite controversial. In short, like many recent bills, in the name of "election integrity" the law is likely to make it more difficult for some people to vote. Once again, there remains vanishingly little evidence of voter fraud in elections, and bills like this one generally appear to be a fig leaf for trying to disenfranchise voters who are more likely to vote for Democrats.