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This is, I think, 100% correct:

Ken White: ’1. The First Amendment and Section 230 let private companies like Twitter and Facebook choose how to moderate their sites. 2. American free speech rights are exceptional and protect a very large... 1/
...amount of speech many of us would agree is dangerous or harmful. That broad protection helps insulate speech from political and ideological urges to censor. 3. But the government has a leadership function as well as a governing one. Part of leadership is praising good... 2/
...behavior and condemning bad behavior, in hopes that people will do the right thing, without the coercion of law. 4. Facebook has a right to make money off of this alarming and deadly disinformation. But that doesn’t make it the right thing to do. Just as Americans have... 3/
...the right to say poisonous and ugly things to each other, that doesn’t make it right. 5. When Facebook is exercising its right to profit off of deadly propaganda about COVID, it’s doing the wrong moral thing. It’s being a bad citizen. The First Amendment protects it from... 4/
...coercion, but not from criticism—yours and ours. 6. We call on Facebook to reconsider its stance. We’ve identified common anti-scientific propaganda that puts lives at risk. Facebook can continue to profit off of it. But it can choose not to. We call on Facebook to do... 5/
...the right thing—for Americans and their lives.

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