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Shouldn’t it be up to the company? Congress made no law, no on forced Twitter from what I’m reading, they made a choice. That is their right.

Demanding that people hold an antagonistic or untrusting view of government speech is no different than any other sort of speech code demand.

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We have direct evidence of federal pressure from multiple federal sources. We can see from what's been released that Twitter's leadership had concerns when pushing back even in the slightest. To assert that Twitter could have ignored that pressure and the requests that accompanied it without repercussions would be incredibly naive.

There's evidence, posted in the threads, of Twitter doing exactly that about numerous specific points. Twitter has, on multiple occasions, fought against states and government interests to unmask its users.

So, there exists evidence, and examples, that Twitter could have pushed back without repercussions. There is no evidence of Twitter having suffered for doing so.

I'm not demanding an antagonistic view, I'm requesting for antagonistic views to be vocalizable without the White House demanding you to be deplatformed.

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