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Facebook Violating 1st Amendment?

I know, they're a private company, blah, blah blah.

But, if they provided a special portal to the federal government so the government can tell Facebook to silence a particular user, does that constitute a violation of the 1st Amendment?



Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai ran for US Senate in Massachusetts as a Republican and made allegations of voter fraud on Twitter. These tweets were then deleted by the far-left tech giant. Later it was discovered that they were deleted at the direction of government employees of the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s office.

Discovering this, Dr. Ayyadurai filed a federal lawsuit by himself, alleging that his federal civil rights were violated when the government silenced his political speech in order to affect an election.

In late July 2021, Dr. Shiva released another explosive report.

Dr. Shiva revealed how election officials and government actors work together to coordinate with social media platforms to silence speech in America.


Facebook apparently still has something similar
https://www.facebook.com/xtakedowns/login
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TexChik · F
Tweets are no longer being censored
Budwick · 70-79, M
@TexChik I know - how cool is that!
SW-User
@TexChik oh, maybe time to go back to Twitter too, kinda miss it.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SW-User I got booted off last year in January when a bunch of others got booted. I don’t even know what I did wrong but they say they are going to wait till they start reinstating accounts so it would be no good to contact them about getting reinstated yet.
TexChik · F
@SW-User yep I just got mine up and going again
TexChik · F
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@TexChik Someone said that was not the real DJT, it was a new account, not a reinstated one.
TexChik · F
@cherokeepatti I don’t know . I would expect they would be all over that
SW-User
@cherokeepatti I’m very surprised! You’re not controversial or anything, you’re polite!
SW-User
@TexChik I deleted mine around January of 2021.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SW-User I was being extra polite during that period due to two previous purges. I just think they didn’t like some of the members I followed and got rid of all of their followers in one fell swoop.
SW-User
TexChik · F
@SW-User They started shadow banning me so I put it in hiatus .
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TexChik · F
@Stereoguy like Tucker Carlson said , the Biden admin can’t govern without censorship
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SW-User It was on January 20th when they banned me. I think they wanted to put an end to the discussion of the Jan 6 thing discussion by Trump followers and just promote their own narrative.
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PatKirby · M
@cherokeepatti

Exactly. It's a Kangaroo Court with the outcome never in doubt.