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To: Observator
Twitter is publicly traded but it's a private employer, not an extension of the federal govenment.

And how do you know that? The evidence is emerging that it seems to have quite a lot of government control as do other big tech companies.

I notice China gets anything censored that it wants censored.

When you are big enough, the government can find all sorts of ways to make you do what the government wants, and do you think the Joe Biden administration will hesitate to use behind the scenes threats to force a company to censor what it wants censored?

This idea of allowing large communications companies to censor American speech will end up being the path by which government(s) censor American speech.

It is impossible to stop government control of speech through "private" agents unless you bar private agents from censoring speech too.

This is a no brainer. Apply the first amendment to all large publicly utilized communications systems.

75 posted on 05/02/2022 10:21:28 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
This is a no brainer. Apply the first amendment to all large publicly utilized communications systems.

FR is a publicly utilized communication system, right?
78 posted on 05/02/2022 10:29:27 AM PDT by Observator
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