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Did The FBI Violate The First Amendment When It Colluded With Twitter?
DAILYCALLER.COM ^ | 12/23/2022 | ALEXA SCHWERHA

Posted on 12/24/2022 9:57:38 AM PST by bitt

The FBI may have violated the First Amendment rights of Twitter users when it flagged accounts for the social media platform to review, several legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Twitter became an “agent of the government” when it worked with the FBI to silence specific accounts at the agency’s request, Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow, told the DCNF.

Ari Cohn, free speech counsel at TechFreedom, told the DCNF that while the findings of the Twitter Files were “interesting,” he doesn’t believe there are “many legal conclusions to draw from it.”

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The FBI has repeatedly flagged Twitter accounts for the social media platform to review and censor over the last few years, raising questions as to whether the agency violated the First Amendment rights of Twitter users, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Twitter Files, a series of revelations by several journalists based on internal Twitter communications, revealed that FBI agents colluded with Twitter executives to censor users and suppress information, while the agency paid Twitter $3.5 million to compensate them for their time processing the FBI’s requests. This partnership raises questions as to whether the FBI may have violated user’s constitutional rights, legal experts told the DCNF, with some arguing the agency’s involvement in Twitter censorship constitutes a First Amendment violation. (RELATED: ‘Attempting To Discredit The Agency’: FBI Responds To ‘Twitter Files’)

Aaron Terr, director of public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), told the DCNF that users deserve to know the extent of how the government communicated with Twitter and that it could raise possible “First Amendment issues, although it could be tricky to prove.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; civilliberties; civilrights; dhs; fbi; fbiakastasi; firstamendment; freespeech; privacy; socialmedia; surveillance; technotyranny; twitter; yes
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1 posted on 12/24/2022 9:57:38 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/24/2022 9:57:51 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

America’s KGB


3 posted on 12/24/2022 9:58:06 AM PST by PGR88
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To: bitt

YBYSA they did.


4 posted on 12/24/2022 9:58:44 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: bitt

In the worst way possible


5 posted on 12/24/2022 9:59:53 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: PGR88

FBI’s new motto...”KGB done right!”


6 posted on 12/24/2022 10:00:05 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: bitt

Did Twitter really work with the FBI to silence specific accounts at the agency’s request?


7 posted on 12/24/2022 10:00:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: bitt

The federal government violates the Constitution by 80%+.

Who the freak cares?


8 posted on 12/24/2022 10:01:18 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: bitt
Yes!

In spite of Obama's 2014 EO # 13691 telling social media they must cooperate with gov't agencies.

9 posted on 12/24/2022 10:02:05 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: bitt

Remember when in a single day someone’s social media account would be targeted for not being “correct” and then banned accross multiple social media platforms? like General Flynn’s account (and his banking account too). I’d like to see those communications between the tech tyrants and the FBI/DOJ/deep state. I bet you the gov’t was behind it to discredit and punish him.


10 posted on 12/24/2022 10:02:58 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: bitt

Do bears poo poo in the woods ???


11 posted on 12/24/2022 10:03:05 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Jim W N

Even if people did care, nothing would be done about it.


12 posted on 12/24/2022 10:03:18 AM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: bitt

The Deep State and Democrat party are in fundamental violation of the US Constitution. We need a SCOTUS willing to hear these charges and bring these enemies to justice.
We also need a military with a primary commitment to protecting the Constitution.
There is a role for both to work together to purge criminals and seditious subversives.


13 posted on 12/24/2022 10:06:20 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (We are not fit to live free but must be enslaved to control the chaos of our unfettered appetites.)
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To: bitt

And, what is the penalty for the FBI violating the Constitution? Oh, it is nothing, no penalty at all! So why would the FBI be concerned with violating the Constitution in any and all ways? Not concerned at all.


14 posted on 12/24/2022 10:07:35 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Yes. Fu#$ery at its lowest form.


15 posted on 12/24/2022 10:09:39 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: bitt

The First Amendment part of the FBI/CIA/who knows who else takeover of social media is the least important part of the story.

The final breakaway of the Fourth Branch, the Administrative State, from governance by ANY of the three branches established by the Constitution is the important story.

You can appeal to the Constitution all you like, but the Constitution is irrelevant now because the real government, the ACTUAL government, is operating in complete independence from it.


16 posted on 12/24/2022 10:10:03 AM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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17 posted on 12/24/2022 10:10:04 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: bitt

Obama’s FBI doesn’t recognize Amendments


18 posted on 12/24/2022 10:10:56 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Louis Foxwell

I’m surprised at you for this: “The Deep State and Democrat party are in fundamental violation of the US Constitution”, because you left out the absolutely critical role the Republican Party plays in the scenario you describe.


19 posted on 12/24/2022 10:12:42 AM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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To: All

KGB


20 posted on 12/24/2022 10:16:22 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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