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> A media company Text from the 1st amendment: "or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" You see that part that says "The press"? Thats what a m
by stale2002 2y ago
> A media company
Text from the 1st amendment: "or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"
You see that part that says "The press"? Thats what a media company is.
Yes, if the government punishes "The press" for its speech, and threatens it with legal action, that is by definition something that effects free speech and is censorship.
Definitionally, I cannot think of something that could be more accurately be described as censorship.
- meiraleal 2y ago> Yes, if the government punishes "The press" for its speech That wasn't the case, the case was "the press" covering criminals. Being the press don't give a company free pass to commit crimes and Xitter is paying for that. PS: "1st amendment" is an American term that doesn't mean anything outside of american jurisdiction (and maybe not even inside, see Tiktok).
- stale2002 2y ago> That wasn't the case, the case was "the press" covering criminals. If the government makes it illegal to publish certain things, that would mean that it is both a crime and censorship. So yes, that would be the case and my previous statement applies. The government making it illegal for the press to publish certain things is definitionally what censorship is. There is literally no more clear example of what censorship is than that.