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Comment by lazide | Hacker News Reader

Huh?

The argument lefties like to make about free speech is that companies are free to choose who can use and what can be said on their platforms. Free speech only applies to government. Well, looks like government has been a part of it.

Can you provide references to specific parts where elected representatives are doing something you think supports that view, rather than hand waving ‘ah hah’ when it doesn’t seem all that damning?

> Free speech only applies to government.

Buddy, it's called the first amendment. It isn't a hard read.

There's still a few weeks left in 2022. It's not too late for this to be the year when you learn that freedom of speech isn't just a law, it's a value.

Something that doesn't involve the government can still be a violation of the principle of freedom of speech, just like something that doesn't technically break any laws against discrimination can still be unfair or racist.

The tweets requested to be taken down, highlighted in the thread, were tweets requested for review as violating Twitter's terms of service.

Which they did, because they were naked pictures of Hunter Biden, being distributed without his consent.[1] They would also be illegal to distribute under revenge porn laws but were being distributed by Chinese-originating accounts.

[1] https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/159883024902577356...

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