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The standard is (a) whether the act was illegal, (b) the company knew it was illegal and did it anyway.

None of what you listed is relevant since it isn’t illegal for example to suppress speech or mislead the public.

> The standard is (a) whether the act was illegal, (b) the company knew it was illegal and did it anyway.

Allegedly...

The first amendment of the US constitutions says that it's illegal for the government to make a law which abridges people's freedom of speech. There are many cases of government entities working with social media companies to suppress speech as the Twitter Files have proved. As the government created and upholds those federal entities on the basis of laws, the government is responsible.

No the first amendment says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

If you’ll humor me - what specifically did the Twitter files show in that regard?

The part where Elon's mum said she was shocked by the contents of the Twitter files and that's why she stopped being a democrat. That's all the info I needed.

Haha. How leftist/neoliberal of me to outsource my opinion! Well, in my defence, Elon's mum is more trustworthy than CNN. She hasn't lied yet.

Unlike your typical leftist, I actually keep score of such things.

The constitution does not make anything a crime

Except treason.

Sort of. It’s more of a limit on what the crime of treason can be.

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