FIRE | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
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  • The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.
  • The federal government strong-armed Apple and Facebook to remove ICE activity monitoring from company platforms.
  • It’s unconstitutional for the government to coerce private companies into censorship.
  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    And when those lawsuits shook out it turned out that the Biden administration didn’t actually do anything wrong. It just warned people about an attempt to influence the election but never said they had to remove content.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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      8 days ago

      The current administration didn’t tell anyone they had to remove anything either, AFAIK. But it can be considered curtailing freedom of speech to ask.

      Threatening to take away their license to broadcast is very different, but that was for ABC.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        The current administration is 100% openly telling apple, Google, Facebook, etc… to remove ice reporting tool and making threats against protected speech.