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by heinrich5991 1010 days ago
> they're still casing the bank vault.

I don't understand the meaning of this part.

> Moderation of online speech is speech

AFAICT, they're not being forced to moderate. They're being forced to say how they approach moderation. "Not at all" being a valid answer, as far as I understand it.
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mpalmer 1010 days ago
Forcing them to answer a question like that is compelled speech about constitutionally protected behavior. It doesn't matter how easy the question is to answer.

What is the government's interest in getting this question answered?

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dotnet00 1009 days ago
It's kind of like being asked by your employer to provide statistics on how often you insult a specific coworker behind their back.

They can promise all they want that the info won't be used against you, but it's obvious that they wouldn't be asking if they didn't intend to do anything with it. Thus it would limit how often you insult that person.

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