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These letters are potentially unconstitutional actions. First amendment rights can be violated by entities other than the government. As pointed out in [1], the
by molbioguy 6y ago
These letters are potentially unconstitutional actions. First amendment rights can be violated by entities other than the government. As pointed out in [1], the government can't induce a company to do something that were government to do it would be illegal:
It is “axiomatic,” the Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/save-the-constitution-from-big-tech-11610387105 https://www.wsj.com/articles/save-the-constitution-from-big-...
Edited for grammar and unnecessary qualifiers.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> These letters are are bordering on potentially unconstitutional actions. “bordering on potentially X” is a very misleading way to say “not even arguably X”. But that's really all it says.
- molbioguy 6y agoThanks. I removed the unnecessary 'bordering on'. The intent was to say they're unconstitutional in my view.