Yeah, that's the truly horrifying thing here. As others are pointing out, the EO itself is just theater, precisely because the actual first amendment of these

Yeah, that's the truly horrifying thing here. As others are pointing out, the EO itself is just theater, precisely because the actual first amendment of these companies and their employees protect them from the government (or have so far, anyway). To wit: Twitter has the same right to tell you the president is lying that the president does to speak via tweet in the first place. The thing that strikes me is that the political tribe that crows about this stuff constantly, when faced with an actual attempt by the executive branch to control the speech of private entities... is absent. Where is the HN libertarian debate squad now? Fucking crickets is all I hear. I despair for society.