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1. "Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit held that Twitter did not act as the government by banning a user months after a government agency flagged for Twitter one of his tweets on alleged election fraud."
1. "Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit held that Twitter did not act as the government by banning a user months after a government agency flagged for Twitter one of his tweets on alleged election fraud."
2. "Twitter is a private entity, so the government and the courts cannot tell it what speech it must remove or what speech it must carry."
3. "The First Amendment restricts censorship only by the government, not private entities, unless those entities are using government power or otherwise effectively acting as the government."
Which is exactly what we know happened. Thanks to the #TwitterFiles.
Which is exactly what we know happened. Thanks to the #TwitterFiles.
4. "even if Twitter and the government were “generally aligned in their missions to limit the spread of misleading election information[, s]uch alignment does not transform private conduct into state action.” (WHAT?!!)
5. Neither Twitter NOR the Government was held liable, and this is a VICTORY? This ENCOURAGES and SUPPORTS censorship @EFF!
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