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The First Amendment exists to protect controversial speech. No one is getting jailed for discussing the weather or the latest Marvel movie (well, except maybe in North Korea). When governments and corporations can arbitrarily classify things as "hate speech" you better believe they're going to use it to silence dissent.
Your first amendment protects you from the government. It does not protect you from actions taken by companies or other people based on your speech.
When government is coercing companies to censor information it is censorship, and a violation of the 1st Amendment.
I guess that primarily depends on whether or not you understand the definition of coercion.
What do we call it when companies coerce government into enacting policy that's detrimental to the general welfare of the country?
Exactly. I can say disgusting things all I want in public, and I can absolutely be shut down on private platforms like SM for saying the exact thing without there being a violation of free speech.
The EFF and Techdirt have already said that it is hate speech and effectively suppresses the free speech of gay and trans. Do you know better than these sources? Where were you when bigots banned books? Did you protest for First Amendment when three racist groups banned books all over the country? Did you protest when these same platforms shadow banned lgbt voices? So you don't care about First Amendment, you are just against LGBT lives in particular.
These mods are around fedi too, can't tell who their handlers are or they are just generic bootlicker labouring for free.
The biases are so obvious lol