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Elon Musk’s First Amendment Misdirection Play
Free speech is not a moral issue; it is a legal issue
First things first now that Elon Musk has cleared the way for the return of the Grifter (I apologize but I cannot take the guy serious as a human being), a few quick comments:
The First Amendment is solid as a rock no matter what Twitter did to the former President/Grifter dude. Twitter is not the state and is not the government.
The First Amendment says:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
That famous clause from our Constitution is talking about state action, not private action. Private entities get to do what they want.
Twitter is a private company. They can throw anyone they want off their platform. So Musk’s continued notion that #45 was treated morally unfair by Twitter is nonsense.
I personally have been tossed off Twitter twice for posts that allegedly violated community standards. They were fair and constitutional though I see posts everyday on all sorts of private platforms that are…
