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I am surprised this made it to SCOTUS. When the government is demanding it, it becomes a 1st amendment issue. Meta is acting as an agent of the government. This should have never happened.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Well, the 5th Circuit found that to be the case...but the 5th Circuit is where the law goes to be corrupted, so I'm extremely skeptical that actually happened. Like, the FBI merely asking constitutes an implicit threat:

In the case of the FBI, it found the agency had coerced and significantly encouraged the social media sites to take down content, arguing that because it was a law enforcement agency, any request to take down content came with the implicit threat that it could take legal action.

That's nonsense, and yet...here we are..