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There’s been a debate between government censorship advocates and First Amendment defenders.
The former claim that Big Tech censorship involving such subjects as COVID, the previous election and assorted other issues viewed as ‘dangerous misinformation’ by the leftist establishment is ‘private action’.
Even when there was a clear chain of government messages urging the censorship of specific individuals and topics, they describe this as ‘jawboning’ and argue that the government has a ‘free speech’ right to persuade tech monopolies to censor people they consider dangerous. This lunatic argument, which essentially makes the First Amendment a dead letter, won over some judges and even Supreme Court justices.
That’s why this letter from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is important.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams …
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