Many Americans were shocked by the recent revelations showing the extent to which government officials were ordering around social media companies. The dictation included efforts to silence views and stories contradicting the official government stance on topics ranging from the effectiveness of masks and vaccines in fighting COVID, to the true story of Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.” These revelations show that the debate over online censorship is not about the right of private companies to decide what speech they will allow on their platforms, but about government officials deputizing private companies to act as speech police in order to get around the First Amendment.
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