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That allows the government to censor at will by censoring on the policy level, by making Facebook adopt government-demanded policies. Since it is always possib
by Jiro 2y ago
That allows the government to censor at will by censoring on the policy level, by making Facebook adopt government-demanded policies. Since it is always possible that Facebook could have come up with the same policy anyway by coincidence, it's never possible to trace any specific act to the government censorship.
- otterley 2y agoOf course it’s possible. That’s what discovery is for. Internal emails were cited in this case as well. And if the Government had coerced Facebook in violation of its Constitutional rights, I’m sure Facebook would sue the Government and quite possibly prevail.
- shadowgovt 2y agoPrecisely. What some people want is for some judicial process to interpose itself in collusion between a private company and the government against the interests of individual clients of a private company... That if the Executive says "jump" and a private company says "how high?" in violation of no particular statute, the judiciary would stop them for First Amendment reasons. It won't, because the companies don't own a private citizen's First Amendment right.