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by cheese4242 841 days ago
This is basically how the 1st Amendment is "backdoored" in this country.

The government cannot be so brazen in curtailing freedom of speech directly so they use Big Tech as the cat's paw. Any complaint over Big Tech's censorship/narrative control can then be met with the “it’s a private company, they can do what they want” retort.

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Not just the First. Second and Fourth too.
funnily enough my monthly NRA magazine is the only “mainstream” media source i have actually seen calling attention to this
Are the encryption-rights/privacy-rights crowds finally converging with the firearm-rights crowds?
It’s been happening for years, but does seem to be speeding up a bit recently.