The "First Amendment" only deals with government restriction of free speech. You may not like a private company censoring your speech, but it's not a "First Amendment" issue. Indeed, the First Amendment means government can't stop private censorship.
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1347327743004995585
Moreover, "Orwellian" is less about a totalitarian state and more about how politicians make lies that sound truth -- such as a senator claiming to be a constitutional lawyer making one of the most common and basic mistakes about the First Amendment.
This "voter integrity" issue is more doublethink, by the way, and EXACTLY what Orwell was talking about. It was about searching desperately for any excuse that could plausibly be exploited to turn the election in Trump's favor.
Sure there a bunch of minor issues here and there, but it's clear to everyone that the will of the voter was in Biden's favor. This effort by the Republicans was therefore to attack the integrity of the vote, but using doublethink to claim they were defending it.
Orwell's works are like the Bible. People who haven't read it or understand it nonetheless passionately believe in it -- or (since they haven't read it) their misconceptions of it.
https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1345500281832878080
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