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The OP is about FBI policing of federal election misinformation, which is both part of the federal government’s purview: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/c
by Apocryphon 4y ago
The OP is about FBI policing of federal election misinformation, which is both part of the federal government’s purview:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=public_integrity https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
And as shady or problematic as their relationship with Twitter is, is borne out of legal precedence:
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/19/when-government-urges-private-entities-to-restrict-others-speech/ https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/19/when-government-urges-p...
Not to mention, in the last decade, by the process of jawboning:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/informal-government-coercion-and-problem-jawboning https://www.lawfareblog.com/informal-government-coercion-and...
So really, your complaints go up further than you think. This is something that has been happening for decades based on judicial decisions, you just weren’t aware of it.