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The first amendment doesn't protect a private company making statements on a private platform

If Elon stood on the street corner shouting lies into a megaphone? Sure, maybe there'd be an argument there

Thats complete nonsense. This isn't the private company making a decision on its platform, this is a government agency forcefully having a tweet removed.

Furthermore, the idea that the federal government can coerce private companies into taking actions which the government is explicitly Constitutionally denied (censorship) is scary in the extreme.

People need to think these things through ahead of them getting too far into Godwin's Law territory.

The government isn't forcing Twitter to delete the message, they're forcing Musk to delete it. There's a big difference.

Just the levels of indirection involved in the tyranny.

If I were to believe that the US Constitution made it impossible for the government to prevent companies from lying to employees about their rights, my conclusion would be "wow, the US Constitution is a pile of trash, let's get that fixed", not defending the megacorporations that are actively lying to millions in a desperate attempt to siphon more money out of the populace.

I don't understand the fascination of some sects of the United States with defending such obviously detrimental practices with "well under an extremely loose reading of this amendment it might technically be allowed, and as we all know amendments can't possibly be changed so there's nothing we can do".

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