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To: hinckley buzzard
I don’t know what basis she had for claiming it was a violation of her First amendment right to free speech. No governmental entity was involved. Not every injustice is illegal.

Agree, a private company can't violate the 1st Amendment.
8 posted on 10/04/2022 9:16:04 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: TexasGunLover

Yes they can

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

If the private corporation acts as a state actor, meaning they are acting like a government. Otherwise the government would just “encourage” private corps to censor what they don’t like.

Granted, this is exactly what Facebook is doing, but no one has smacked them down on it yet.


10 posted on 10/04/2022 9:26:20 AM PDT by sloanrb
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To: TexasGunLover

Facebook is a de facto government organization. The Biden administration has admitted this. Even Mark Zuckerberg himself admitted working with the Biden Administration to censor and suppress information damaging to the Administration. So a 1st administration violation would apply to Candace’s case.


12 posted on 10/04/2022 9:29:57 AM PDT by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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To: TexasGunLover

They can if the government was paying FB to censor people/posts: https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election


18 posted on 10/04/2022 9:44:48 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: TexasGunLover

No, but they can do it, in conjunction with the government.
Just gives the feds plausible deniability.


20 posted on 10/04/2022 9:58:14 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: TexasGunLover

They can when the government is directing them what to allow and not allow as speech.


24 posted on 10/04/2022 10:41:15 AM PDT by pas
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